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Send us a textIn today's episode, I am chatting with Sandra Schnakenburg. She is a dual American/Australian citizen. Sandy earned a BS in finance and international business at Arizona State University and an MBA specializing in finance and accounting at the University of Southern California. She left a career in corporate finance in 2010 to sutdy creative nonfiction. She has completed writing courses at Rice University. Writespace, and The Writers University in Houston. When not writing, you will find Sandra enjoying her family, nature, hiking, skiing, biking, cooking, yoga and walking her dogs. She and her husband, Karl, currently split their time between Houston, TX and Park City, Utah.Episode Highlights:Sandy shares the deeply personal story behind The Housekeeper's Secret, a memoir written from her point of view that uncovers the life of Lee, her beloved housekeeper and a guiding light in her youth.Reflections on childhood, identity and the privilege and responsibility of telling someone else's story with care.A meaningful discussion on parenting and the importance of fostering a sense of purpose in our children's lives.Insights into Sandy's transition from a finance career to creative nonfiction writing and how she approaches the craft.Thoughts on perseverance in writing, including the staggering statistic that 97% of people who want to write a book don't finish.Encouragement for aspiring writers about the ever-evolving journey of authorship and the humbling lessons each new project brings.Sandy's book flight includes the books she devoured that influenced her voice and helped shape her memoir.Connect with Sandra Schnakenburg:InstagramWebsiteFacebookPurchase The Housekeeper's SecretShow NotesSome links are affiliate links, which are no extra cost to you but do help to support the show.Books and authors mentioned in the episode:The War of Art by Stephen PressfieldMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklThe Untethered Soul by Michael A. SingerThe Housemaid by Freida McFaddenBook FlightThe Silent Patient by Alex MichaelidesThe Fact of the Body by Alex Marzano-LesnevichReady for a monthly literary adventure? We now have the BFF Book Club. Join us each month to explore a new book. After reading, connect with fellow book lovers and meet the author in a live interview! Can't make it live? Don't worry—we'll send you the recording. You can find all our upcoming book club selections HERE. Support the showBe sure to join the Bookish Flights community on social media. Happy listening! Instagram Facebook Website

Discover the secrets to early retirement and financial independence from a tech industry veteran!In this episode, we dive deep into the inspiring journey of Kristine Howard, who transitioned from a dynamic career in tech to a life of early retirement, reaching financial independence and personal fulfillment along the way.Key topics discussed:Learn why tracking your expenses is the key to financial freedomMaster the balanced money formula for budgeting successUncover smart investing strategies, including the power of index funds and diversificationUnderstand how aligning your career with personal values can lead to greater satisfactionLearn the “4% rule” and how it can help determine your retirement readinessGain insights into the emotional journey of transitioning to early retirementHear the unexpected benefits of early retirement, including more time for personal growthDiscover the three keys to staying healthy in retirement: staying active, engaged, and contributingWhether you're just starting your career or dreaming of early retirement, don't miss out on these valuable lessons for achieving financial independence and living life on your own terms!  Timestamps:(02:07) Career Turning Points(07:01) Getting into Early Retirement(09:16) Financial Independence vs Early Retirement(10:13) Can We Reach Financial Independence?(11:56) The Shares/Equity Lever(15:43) Working in Startups vs Corporates vs Big Tech(18:34) The Importance of Financial Tracking(23:36) Building Automation & Doing Periodic Reviews(29:17) Focus on the Spending Rather than Income(30:43) Budgeting(33:12) Trade CapEx for OpEx(35:36) Saving & Investing(38:53) On Diversification(41:17) The Importance of Emergency Fund(43:12) How Did it Feel Getting Closer to Retirement?(48:19) The Feeling of Significant Income Drop(51:01) Things Anyone Can Do Even Before Retirement(56:00) 3 Tech Lead Wisdom_____Kristine Howard's BioKristine Howard is an American-Australian residing in Sydney, Australia. Her extensive career features significant roles within technical teams at prominent companies such as Channel 9, Canva, and AWS. She is married to the Snook, and together they share a passion for global travel and culinary exploration. Kristine also expresses her creativity through knitting and sewing, finding joy in crafting handmade items. Notably, she has shared her expertise and insights at over 100 tech meetups, conferences, and events worldwide.Follow Kristine:LinkedIn – linkedin.com/in/kristinehowardBlog – web-goddess.org_____Our SponsorsEnjoy an exceptional developer experience with JetBrains. Whatever programming language and technology you use, JetBrains IDEs provide the tools you need to go beyond simple code editing and excel as a developer.Check out FREE coding software options and special offers on jetbrains.com/store/#discounts.Make it happen. With code.Manning Publications is a premier publisher of technical books on computer and software development topics for both experienced developers and new learners alike. Manning prides itself on being independently owned and operated, and for paving the way for innovative initiatives, such as early access book content and protection-free PDF formats that are now industry standard.Get a 40% discount for Tech Lead Journal listeners by using the code techlead24 for all products in all formats.Like this episode?Show notes & transcript:techleadjournal.dev/episodes/209.Follow @techleadjournal onLinkedIn,Twitter, andInstagram.Buy me acoffee or become apatron.

Joseph Dolce; born October 13, 1947) is an American-Australian singer, songwriter, poet and essayist. Dolce achieved international recognition with his multi-million-selling novelty song, "Shaddap You Face", released worldwide under the name of his one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, in 1980–1981. The single reached number one in 15 countries. It has sold more than 450,000 copies in Australia and continues to be the most successful Australian-produced single worldwide, selling an estimated six million copies. It reached No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980. 1947–1977: Early year Dolce was born in 1947 in Painesville, Ohio, the eldest of three children to Italian American parents. He graduated from Thomas W. Harvey High School in 1965. During his senior year, he played the lead role of Mascarille in Moliere's Les Précieuses Ridicules for a production staged by the French Club of Lake Erie Frie College, which was his first time on stage, acting and singing an impromptu song he created from the script. The play was well-received and his performance was noted by director Jake Rufli, who later invited him to be part of his production of Jean Anouilh's Eurydice. His co-star in Les Précieuses Ridicules was a sophomore on a creative writing scholarship at Lake Erie College, Carol Dunlop, who introduced him to folk music, poetry and the writings of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Dunlop later married the Argentine novelist Julio Cortazar. Dolce attended Ohio University, majoring in architecture, from 1965 to 1967 before deciding to become a professional musician. While attending college at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, he formed various bands including Headstone Circus, with Jonathan Edwards who subsequently went on as a solo artist to have a charting hit song in the US ("Sunshine"). Edwards subsequently recorded five Dolce songs including, "Athens County", "Rollin' Along", "King of Hearts", "The Ballad of Upsy Daisy" and "My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame", the latter song becoming an alt country classic, also recorded by Robert Earl Keen, Rosalie Sorrels, JD Crowe & the New South and many others. 1978–1984: Move to Australia, "Boat People" and "Shaddap You Face" Dolce relocated to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1978 and his first single there was "Boat People"—a protest song on the poor treatment of Vietnamese refugees—which was translated into Vietnamese and donated to the fledgling Vietnamese community starting to form in Melbourne. His one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, was performed in cabarets and pubs with various line-ups, including his longtime partner, Lin Van Hek.  In July 1980, he recorded the self-penned 'Shaddap You Face", for the Full Moon Records label, at Mike Brady's new studios in West Melbourne. When in Ohio, Dolce would sometimes visit his Italian grandparents and extended family—they used the phrases "What's the matter, you?" and "Eh, shaddap", which Dolce adapted and used in the song. He wrote the song about Italians living in Australia and first performed it at Marijuana House, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979. It became a multi-million-selling hit, peaking at No. 1 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart for eight weeks from November 1980,in the UK from February 1981 for three weeks, and also No. 1 in Germany, France, Fiji, Puerto Rico, the Canadian province of Quebec, Austria, New Zealand and Switzerland. Dolce received the Advance Australia Award in 1981. The song has had hundreds of cover versions over the decades including releases by artists as diverse as Lou Monte, Sheila (France), Andrew Sachs (Manuel, of Fawlty Towers), actor Samuel L. Jackson and hip-hop legend KRS-One. In 2018, the first Russian language version was released by two of Moscow's most popular singers, Kristina Orbakaite and Philipp Kirkoroy. The song has been translated into fifteen languages, including an aboriginal dialect. By February 1981, it had become Australia's best-selling single ever selling 290,000 copies, entering the Guinness Book of World Records and surpassing the previous record of 260,000 copies by Brady's own "Up There Cazaly". "Shaddap You Face" has continued to be licensed and recorded by other artists and companies since its release in 1980 with its most recent appearance, in 2021, as part of the US series The Morning Show (aka, Morning Wars in Australia.) Follow up single, "If You Wanna Be Happy" was released in 1981 and charted in Australia and New Zealand. In December 1981, Dolce released the album Christmas in Australia, which peaked at number 92 on the Australian chart. 1984–present With Lin Van Hek , he formed various performance groups including Skin the Wig, La Somnambule (1984) and the ongoing Difficult Women (1993). Van Hek and Dolce co-wrote "Intimacy", for the soundtrack of the 1984 film The Terminator, now part of the US Library of Congress collection. He was a featured lead actor in the Australian film Blowing Hot and Cold (1988). He has continued to perform solo and with Van Hek as part of their music-literary cabaret Difficult Women. In 2010, two of his photos were selected for publication in the US journal, Tupelo Quarterly. Since 2009, he has been a prolifically published poet in Australia. In 2010, he won the 25th Launceston Poetry Cup at the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. His poems were selected for Best Australian Poems 2014 & 2015. He was the winner of the 2017 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Health Poetry Prize, for a choral libretto, longlisted in the same year for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize and included in the Irises anthology. He longlisted for the 2018 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize and was included in the Silence anthology. He was Highly Commended for the 2020 ACU Poetry Prize] and included in the Generosity anthology. He was selected as the August 2020 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate. Since 2018, he has been the television and film reviews editor for Quadrant magazine.

Special Guest: Sandra Schnakenburg – Author of “The Housekeeper's Secret” Points covered  ·       Sit-down conversation with Sandra Schnakenburg – Author of “The Housekeeper's Secret” ·       The origin and background on the book ·       The biggest 2-3 secrets discovered ·       The importance of writing a memoir ·       2-3 important elements you should include in a memoir Biography Sandra Schnakenburg is the author of the new book: The Housekeeper's Secret. She is a dual American/Australian citizen. Sandy earned a BS in finance and international business at Arizona State University and an MBA specializing in finance and accounting at the University of Southern California. She left a career in corporate finance in 2010 to study creative nonfiction. She has completed writing courses at Rice University, Writespace, and The Writers University in Houston. When not writing, you will find Sandra enjoying her family, nature, hiking, skiing, biking, cooking, yoga and walking her dogs. She and her husband, Karl, currently split their time between Houston, Texas and Park City, Utah.   Website https://www.sklily.net/ Social Media  https://www.instagram.com/sandrakschnakenburg/     Brought to you by the J.C. Cooley Foundation, "Equipping the Youth of Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow."#ItsYourLife #Talkshow #Podcast #Radio #sandrakschnakenburgSupport the show: http://www.cooleyfoundation.org/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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On this episode of Rooted Recovery Stories, Patrick sits down with American-Australian folk rock, and contemporary Christian musician grammy nominated singer Jennifer Knapp, best known for her first single "Undo Me" from her debut album, Kansas, and the song "A Little More" from her Grammy Award-nominated album, Lay It Down. The two discuss her career, her struggles with coming out as a christian singer, and how everything led to her putting down music for years at the height of her career. We would love to hear from you! Email us at ROOTED@PROMISES.COM Watch/Listen/Subscribe: ⁠⁠@rootedrecoverystories Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/rootedrecoverystories/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@patrickcusterproject Facebook: https://www.promises.com/rooted-recovery-stories/ URL: ⁠https://www.rootedrecoverystories.com⁠ __________________ Resources: Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/mentalhealthamerica URL: https://⁠www.mhanational.org⁠ Promises Behavioral Health – Treatment for addiction, mental health/trauma: URL: ⁠https://www.promisesbehavioralhealth.com⁠ Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/promises_bh/ Follow Patrick Custer! Insta: https://www.instagram.com/patrick_custer/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@patrickcusterproject Follow Jennifer Knapp! URL:https://jenniferknapp.com/ Insta: @JenniferKnappMusic YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIs93YTrm30qGX2AZqkkPig Produced and Edited by "The Cast Collective" in Nashville, TN! Visit us today at https://www.thecastcollective.com Email: info@thecastcollective.com Follow The Cast Collective on Instagram & Twitter! Instagram: @TheCastCollective Twitter: @TheCastCollective #jenniferknapp #pridemonth #lgbtqia #trauma #recovery #podcast #mentalhealth #lifestyle #inspiration #purpose #therapy #tennessee #selfcare #overcome #healing #wellness #goodnews #promisesbehavorialhealth #patrickcuster #struggle #rootedrecovery #newmusic #newmusicrelease #singer #christian Keywords: trauma, recovery, podcast, mental health, rooted recovery stories, patrick custer, mental health podcast, trauma podcast, anxiety podcast, recovery podcast, coping mechanisms, nashville, domestic violence, trauma, new music, jennifer knap music, jenifer, nap, jennifer nap, podcast

Danni Stefanetti is a Palm Springs based American & Australian award-winning singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist with influences ranging from Sheryl Crow and Stevie Ray Vaughn to Bryan Adams, The Eagles, Jewel, The Beatles & The Rolling Stones.

Altium Limited is an American - Australian multinational software company that provides electronic design automation software to engineers who design printed circuit boards. So if you're unfamiliar, think of a microchip, with all the little wires and transistors on it, this software helps design those. As you can imagine, it's applicable to many, many industries. To break down this company today, we're joined by Jun Bei Liu - Portfolio Manager at Tribeca Investment Partners.The Equity Mates Summer Series is proud to partner with CommSec, the home of investing. Often we get frustrated with the lack of access to international markets, particularly when there are so many great opportunities outside of Australia. However, with CommSec those opportunities are a reality, with access to 13 international markets, from the US, to Norway, Germany and Japan. Invest in shares on the US Market from just $5 USD brokerage. Download the CommSec app today or visit commsec.com.au. CommSec T&Cs and other fees and charges apply. Investing in overseas markets exposes you to additional risk.If you want to go beyond the podcast and learn more, check out our accompanying email. Buy a copy of Don't Stress, Just Invest now, click here.You could win $500 by filling out our EM Community Survey. Click here.*****In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Equity Mates Investing Podcast acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. *****This episode contained sponsored content from Commsec*****Equity Mates Investing Podcast is a product of Equity Mates Media. This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional. Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.Equity Mates is part of the Acast Creator Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mining Weekly Editor Martin Creamer discusses the American-Australian business partnership that was recently announced, which focuses on a global green hydrogen ecosystem; the global attention that Copper 360's mining school is getting; and the focus on the integration of mining with the circular economy.

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Building out and scaling up a global green hydrogen ecosystem collaboratively is at the heart of an American-Australian business partnership announced this week, amid 30-plus countries already having hydrogen strategies in place that focus on the deployment of green hydrogen to achieve net-zero climate-mitigation goals. Plug of the US, headed by Andy Marsh, and Fortescue Energy of Australia, headed by Mark Hutchinson, outlined to 3 000 virtual attendees their common mission of spreading green hydrogen across the world, while at the same time fighting climate change by slashing carbon emissions, cleaning up industry, electrifying vehicles, powering commercial and residential buildings, and generating a substantial number of sustainable jobs. (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) "This is a big market opportunity. It's really a focus of Plug every day to make hydrogen an ubiquitous fuel, and that's why I get so excited when we partner with companies like Fortescue. We have a similar vision and know we have to make hydrogen easy," Marsh told the company's fifth annual symposium, which was covered by Mining Weekly. Great news for South Africa is that the 550 MW electrolyser that Plug will supply to Fortescue's Gibson Island Project in Brisbane is a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser. This is because PEM electrolysers are platinum-based and South Africa hosts the world's largest resource of platinum group metals. Fortescue's final investment decision on that project is expected to be taken by the end of December. Once operational, the plant will produce 385 000 t/y of green ammonia from the green hydrogen produced onsite through the hydrogen electrolysis facility. In addition, Plug and Fortescue have started the initial diligence process for Fortescue to take up to a 40% equity stake in Plug's Texas hydrogen plant and for Plug to take up to a 25% equity stake in Fortescue's proposed Phoenix hydrogen plant. Meanwhile, across North America and Europe, Plug has deployed more than 60 000 fuel cells and 180-plus fuelling stations and plans to build and operate a green hydrogen highway. Fuel cells, which go hand-in-glove with platinum-based green hydrogen electrolysers, contain platinum catalysts that convert the green hydrogen into clean electricity for mobile and stationary use. PEM electrolysers were first developed during the 1950s for the space programme and have transitioned to the mainstream as the case for green hydrogen has strengthened, driven by the need to find solutions to combat climate change. The improving business case for green hydrogen is based on growing renewable generation capacity, falling renewable electricity costs, and PEM's innovative advance. "Gibson Island's one of our first projects. Eventually we want to work on how do you replace the LNG market globally. That's like the Holy Grail in our view. "Just think about the last 12 months, how governments around the world have really accelerated this industry. We're very much at the starting gate of this industry, we've got a long way to go, but there's plenty to do for everybody," said Hutchinson. Bloomberg estimates that 20% of world energy will come from hydrogen by 2050. By 2030, Europe will be using 10-million tons of domestically produced hydrogen a year and will also be importing another 10-million tons of hydrogen. Europe has made it clear that 42% of this hydrogen must be green hydrogen. The US will be generating 10-million tons of its own hydrogen. "When we do a back-of-the-envelope calculation, just for our electrolyser business, just for Europe, just for the United States, it's a $40-billion opportunity between now and 2030, just for one small segment of our business. "So, yes, hydrogen's going to be big, and we've been building it out. We've been building infrastructure for the last 15 years, and what I've learnt over those 15 years is that when you're in ...

In episode 4, I sit down with my dual citizen (American/Australian) friend, Koop Mccallup! Koop and I grew up together in the south side of Odessa, TX! He is now a Husband, Father, professional basketball player, floorer, and business owner! Check this episode out to hear about “The Australian Dream!”

The IInspiration (aka The IIconics, Cassie Lee and Jessica McKay) spoke with WrestleZone about the new season of “Off Her Chops” on Premier Streaming Network, their WWE/IMPACT wrestling run, possible return as a team, Cassie's in-ring return and Jessica's acting pursuits, American/Australian pet peeves and more.

Host Jon Olson discusses Australia's national security concerns and partnerships with the United States with Dr. John Blaxland from Australian National University.

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events   1725 Birth of John Hope, botanist, professor, and founder of the Royal Garden in Edinburgh. John produced considerable work on plant classification and physiology. He was appointed the King's botanist for Scotland and superintendent of the Royal Garden in Edinburgh. At the time, Edinburgh was the place to study medicine, and all medical students had to take botany courses. John created a school for botanists after spinning off the school's materia medica (pharmacy) department, which allowed him to specialize exclusively in botany. John was a captivating instructor. He was one of the first two people to teach the Linnean system. He also taught the natural system. John was one of the first professors to use big teaching diagrams or visual aids to teach his lectures. John led over 1,700 students during his tenure. His students traveled from all over Europe, America, and India. John Hope Alumni include the likes of James Edward Smith, founder and first President of the Linnaean Society, Charles Drayton, and Benjamin Rush. A field botanist, John encouraged his students to go out and investigate the Flora of Scotland. He awarded a medal every year to the student who collected the best herbarium.   1818 Birth of Arthur Cleveland Coxe, American theologian and composer. Arthur served as the second Episcopal bishop of Western New York. He once wrote, Flowers are words, which even a baby can understand.   1891 Death of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss botanist. Although he studied cell division and pollination, Carl's claim to fame is being the guy who discouraged Gregor Mendel from pursuing his work on genetics. Gregor regarded Carl as a botanical expert and his professional hero. When Gregor sent Carl an overview of his work with pea plants in a letter, Carl dismissed the results out of hand, labeling them "only empirical, and impossible to prove rationally." Carl poo-pooed natural selection. Instead, he believed in orthogenesis, a now-defunct theory that living organisms have an internal driving force - a desire to perfect themselves- and evolve toward this goal. Over a seven-year period in the mid-1800s, Gregor Mendel grew nearly 30,000 pea plants - taking note of their height and shape and color - in his garden at the Augustinian monastery he lived in at Brno (pronounced "burr-no") in the Czech Republic. His work resulted in what we now know as the Laws of Heredity. Gregor came up with the genetic terms and terminology that we still use today, like dominant and recessive genes. Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli's dismissal prompted Gregor to give up his work with genetics. After his promotion to the abbot of the monastery, Gregor focused on his general duties and teaching. In 1884, Gregor died without ever knowing the impact his work would have on modern science. Fifteen years later, in 1899,  a friend sent the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries a copy of Gregor's work - calling it a paper on hybridization - not heredity. At the same time, Gregor's paper was uncovered by a student of Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli's - a man named Carl E. F. J. Correns. Hugo de Vries rushed to publish his first paper on genetics without mentioning Gregor Mendel. But he did have the nerve to use some of Gregor's data and terminology in his paper. Carl Correns threatened to expose De Vries, who then quickly drafted a new version of his paper, which gave proper credit to Gregor Mendel. Through his work with the humble pea plant, Gregor came up with many of the genetic terms still used today, like dominant and recessive genes.    1907 It was on this day that Francis Younghusband, British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer, documented the progression of spring in the Residency Garden in Kashmir. Francis shared his observations in a book called Kashmir(1909). The Residency Garden was an English country house that was built specifically for guests by the Maharajah, and so naturally, Francis loved staying there. Here's what Francis wrote in May of 1907 about the Residency Garden, which was just coming into full flower. Francis observed,  By May 1st ...The May trees were in full blossom. The bank on the south side of the garden was a mass of dark purple and white irises, and [the] evening [sun] caused each flower to [become] a blaze of glory. Stock was in full bloom. Pansies were out in masses. Both the English and Kashmir lilacs were in blossom, and the columbines were in perfection.  The first horse chestnuts came into blossom on May 10th, and on that date, the single pink rose, sinica anemone, on the trellis at the end of the garden, was in full bloom and of wondrous beauty; a summer-house covered with Fortune's yellow was a dream of golden loveliness;  I picked the first bloom of some English roses that a kind friend had sent out... and we had our first plateful of strawberries. A light mauve iris, a native of Kashmir, [is now in] bloom; ...and some lovely varieties of Shirley poppy... from Mr. Luther Burbank, the famous plant-breeder of California, began to blossom; and roses of every variety came [on] rapidly till the garden became a blaze of color.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation Lemon, Love & Olive Oil by Mina Stone This book came out in September of 2021. Now, if you're a cookbook lover, you know that Mina's debut cookbook called Cooking For Artists was a smash hit. It was also self-published. And in fact, right now, if you go on Amazon and you try to get a copy of that first cookbook, you'll pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $150. To me, Mina's story is fascinating. She actually went to school to be a designer, and then, on the side, she started cooking for families. And then she started cooking for special events. And then eventually, she started cooking for a gallery, and that's where she started cooking for artists. Thus, the name of her first book. The story behind the second book, Lemon Love and Olive Oil, stems from the fact that whenever people would ask MIna for ingredients to make something taste great, her answer was always lemon juice, olive oil, and a little bit of salt. So, those are her go-to ingredients. Mina contends that you can make anything taste good with a little bit of her favorite three ingredients: lemon juice, olive oil, and salt. So that became the name for the cookbook, except salt was replaced with love. When this cookbook was released, it met with rave reviews. In fact, the New York times rated it a best cookbook of the year, writing, Author of the cult-favorite Cooking for Artists, Mina Stone, returns with a collection of 80 new recipes inspired by her traditional Greek heritage and her years cooking for some of New York's most innovative artists.   I've watched a couple of interviews with Mina, and one thing she says over and over again was that when she was creating this cookbook is, she was constantly thinking about the love aspect of these recipes. By that, Mina was focusing on the comfort level and the coziness factor of the food. So that's what she was trying to capture with these 80 recipes. I found that so poignant, especially in light of the fact that she was putting this together during the pandemic while she's in lockdown in 2020. Mina is not the kind of person that comes up with a cookbook and then has to go out and create a bunch of recipes. That's not how Mina works. Instead, Mina pays attention to the recipes that she starts making again and again. So these are recipes that have staying power. They are the recipes that pass the Mina Test, and they rise to the top of her favorites because they are just naturally so good. Also, if you are a lover of reading cookbooks, you are going to really enjoy Mina's book. Before each section, there are essays from Mina that share stories about her family - and her grandmother, who is kind of the original Greek cook in Mina's life.  Mina has great insight, not only on these recipes and ingredients but also from her sheer personal experience.  I couldn't help, but think as I was reading this cookbook that Mina could write a memoir because her stories are so intriguing. In addition to the essays for each section of the book, every recipe gets a little personal introduction as well. For an excerpt, I selected a few little snippets from a section that Mina calls My Kitchen. This is a chapter about the key ingredients that Mina uses on repeat. She writes, I've always found pantry lists in cookbooks to be intimidating. Asa self-trained home cook, I never sought out hard-to-find ingredients. It never crossed my mind as an option. The ingredients in my recipes and the food found in my pantry reflect my surroundings touched with a dose of Greekness. (It can't be helped.) Here are some thoughts on how I approach cooking in my kitchen, what I like to keep in my cupboards, what I run out to the store for, and some clarification on how I wrote the recipes.   Salt Sea salt is more salty and kosher salt is less salty. Because kosher salt is less salty it gives you more control over the seasoning. For example, it is great for seasoning meat because you can use more and achieve a lovely salt crust as well as the right amount of seasoning without oversalting. It is the salt up using the most.   Extra-Virgin Olive Oil I like to use olive oil sparingly during cooking (this makes thedish lighter) and add the bulk of it at the end, once cooking is completed. use much more olive oil in the recipes than people are accustomed to using. suggest adding more than you would think when you're cooking from this book. That's a great little tidbit, especially if you're using olive oil for cooking with your garden harvest. There is so much that comes out of our garden that goes into the pan with a ton of olive oil. But now, maybe you can dial that back a little bit with this tip from Mina.   Lemons They add floral buoyancy but, above all, a fresh form of acid that I usually prefer to vinegar. When using lemons for zest, try to always use organic ones.    I've never thought about lemons that way, but I love how she describes that floral buoyancy. And, you know, she's exactly right. Personally, I also think that there's something just a little less harsh about lemon juice as compared to vinegar. So if you have a sensitive tummy, consider incorporating lemon juice instead of vinegar.   Green Herbs: Parsley, Mint, Cilantro, and Basil I like fresh herbs in abundance and can often find a place to incorporate them with relative ease. In the recipes, herbs are usually measured by the handful: 1 handful equals about 1/4 cup. It doesn't need to be exact, but that is a good place to start if you need it. This advice is helpful as well because if you're planning your kitchen garden, you need to think about how many plants you need to plant so that you can have an abundant harvest. Just to give you an idea of how much Basil I use in the summertime, I usually end up buying about four to five flats of Basil.   Dried Oregano Oregano is my number one dried herb. Greek oregano has a pronounced savory and earthy flavor to it, and it is my preference to use in more traditional Greek dishes. Better-quality dried oregano, which is milder in flavor, is great to use as a general seasoning for salad, fish, and meats.   This book is 272 pages of more than eighty Mediterranean-style dishes and the stories that inspired them. These recipes are uncomplicated, and they're Mina's go-to recipes. And, of course, they can always be enhanced with lemon, olive oil, and salt. You can get a copy of Lemon, Love & Olive Oil by Mina Stone and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $15.   Botanic Spark 2017 Death of Polly Park, American-Australian amateur gardener, speaker, and writer. Remembered as the designer of Boxford, a Canberra garden, Polly and her husband Peter created classic garden styles using their own creativity and gumption. On their half-acre suburban property, Boxford attracted visitors from across the world and featured six unique gardens: a modern garden inspired by Roberto Burle Marx, an English knot garden, a parterre garden with an Italien statue from Florence, a Chinese garden inspired by the Suzhou ("sue-joe") garden, an Indian garden, and a Japanese garden. Polly and Peter made a great garden team. Polly came up with the design ideas, and Peter was the muscle. Polly created the stone courtyard for the Indian garden and a mosaic inspired by the great 20th-century Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer ("Nee-myer") for the modern garden. Peter built the pond and meditation house for the Japanese garden. In 1988, Polly wrote a biography of their gardens in the book The World in My Garden. Although Boxford was identified as a National heritage site - after Peter and Polly sold the property in 2006 - the garden was destroyed. In 2011, Peter died. Polly followed him home six years later on this day at the age of 96. You can get a used copy of The World in My Garden by Polly Park and support the show for around $17.    Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.   John Hope, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Francis Younghusband, Lemon, Love & Olive Oil by Mina Stone, Polly Park

Mystic Minstrel, Chad Wilkins, is an American/Australian singer-songwriter bringing heart-songs that reveal a better way for a generation in transitional times on our planet! From his lively, progressive grooves, to his deeply prayerful chants, spanning many genres, Chad's rootsy folk anthems carry themes of love, gratitude, risk, honour, and pure vibrant LIFE(!) Visit his website https://www.chadwilkinsmusic.comCheck out more podcast and information about Shine Online Festival at https://www.bringme2life.com

Mystic Minstrel, Chad Wilkins, is an American/Australian singer-songwriter bringing heart-songs that reveal a better way for a generation in transitional times on our planet! From his lively, progressive grooves, to his deeply prayerful chants, spanning many genres, Chad's rootsy folk anthems carry themes of love, gratitude, risk, honour, and pure vibrant LIFE(!) – giving voice to our cry for spiritual transformation, harmony with the Earth, and hope for a bright future. Website: https://chadwilkinsmusic.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chadwilkinsmusic/ Have you heard his latest Single? Say Yes https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/sayyes --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mystic Minstrel, Chad Wilkins, is an American/Australian singer-songwriter bringing heart-songs that reveal a better way for a generation in transitional times on our planet! From his lively, progressive grooves, to his deeply prayerful chants, spanning many genres, Chad's rootsy folk anthems carry themes of love, gratitude, risk, honour, and pure vibrant LIFE(!) – giving voice to our cry for spiritual transformation, harmony with the Earth, and hope for a bright future. More info: https://chadwilkinsmusic.com/ | IG: @chadwilkinsmusic   ~Here are the links to share to all his new singles (available to listen or pre-save, depending on date)~   SAY YES https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/sayyes   STRONG IN SURRENDER https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/stronginsurrender   LOVE IS ROUND https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/loveisroundfeatmurraykyle   BLESSED TO BE https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/blessedtobe   THERE'S THIS THING https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/theresthisthing   SONG OF THE DAWN https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/songofthedawn   SHOW ME https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/showme   TOGETHER RISE https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/togetherrise   I LOVE YOU FOREVER https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/iloveyouforever   FLOWERS https://hypeddit.com/chadwilkins/flowers   ------------ ABOUT YOUR HOST: Porter Singer is a spiritually-inclined musician, podcaster, and creative sound mentor. Her intention is to beam out a harmonious vibration that gathers lightworkers in collaborative community. More info: https://portersinger.com/   ------------ *AFFILIATE LINKS* (support the podcast when you buy or join)   EARTH BREEZE LAUNDRY SHEETS ~ These Earth-friendly dehydrated laundry sheets will leave your clothes super clean, without the waste of bulky plastic containers. The referral money we get from YOU clicking on that link and ordering will help sustain this podcast AND help care for our beautiful Earth. Thank you in advance! MORE INFO: https://www.earthbreeze.com/?rfsn=6157640.8b8358

Dr. Shirley Madhere is a NYC-based plastic surgeon and Founder of Holistic Plastic Surgery.  This philosophy is based on a whole-body, mind, and spirit approach to beauty and incorporates wellness, integrative nutrition, functional aesthetics, and complementary medicine.   Dr. Madhere's approach to optimal outcomes in plastic surgery is through a lens of wellness, and is grounded in science and backed by ivy league medical study, research, and extensive surgical training.  View her menu of services at ElementsandGraces.com.  Consultations are available in-office, virtually, and online via Click-lift.com.   Coming soon: Dr. Madhere offers beauty on call services through Jet Set Beauty Rx, a mobile medical aesthetics unit delivering beauty in the privacy of your own home.  Reserve at JetSetBeautyRx.com.   As a creative outlet and means to broaden the perspective on the “spectrum of beauty,”  Dr. Madhere created Forever F.A.B., a podcast dedicated to Fashion, the Art of living well (i.e., wellness), and all things Beauty.  Visit ForeverFABpodcast.com for past and new episodes.     If you enjoy listening to the Forever F.A.B. podcast, get more audio and visuals with a membership through Patreon.  Choose the Gold, Platinum, or Diamond tier for premium added content, special co-hosts, lifestyle videos, branded merchandise, and private access to Dr. Shirley's Clubhouse by visiting patreon.com/ForeverFAB.   This week's podcast episode features an interview with Kortney Olsen.   Kortney Olson is an American-Australian bodybuilder, personal trainer, and athlete. In June 2021, she broke the Guinness World Records for the fastest time to crush three watermelons between the thighs. Olson made her competitive bodybuilding debut in November 2011. She later migrated to Australia and became Australia's first ever female arm wrestling champion in 2012. She is also the founder of Kamp Konfidence, a camp which empowers, encourages, and improves young girls and women's well-being. Olson is the founder and CEO of women's clothing company and female empowerment movement, GRRRL Clothing, which has some of the most eclectic and super-cool leggings I've ever seen. In January 2021, Olson published her memoir, titled Crushing It: How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction, & the Patriarchy. Catch the latest episode of the Forever F.A.B. podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, iheartradio, Podbean, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.  For past episodes featuring guest star interviews, beauty product reviews and innovations in plastic surgery, visit ForeverFABpodcast.com.   The F.A.B. Five according to Kortney Olson: Get into service as a way out of self-pity; Do the work.  Take responsibility for your higher education (toward your highest self); Level-up your circle.  Are you the sum of the top five people you hang out with? Learn effective communication, especially when establishing and enforcing boundaries; Repetition is the mother of all expertise.  This is the one way to build confidence. Are you ready to change the world?  Do so in FABulous leggings purchased on grrrl.com. Purchase Kortney's book, Crushing It: How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction, & the Patriarchy. Get in on the movement by following on IG: @grrrl_clothing and follow Kortney on IG: @kortney_olsen. ***** As always, if you liked this episode of the Forever FAB podcast, please share it and subscribe to the feed. Listen to past episodes or check out who's coming up next on foreverfabpodcast.com.   If you enjoy listening to the Forever F.A.B. podcast, get more audio and visuals with a membership through Patreon.  Choose the Gold, Platinum, or Diamond tier for premium added content, special co-hosts, lifestyle videos, branded merchandise, and private access to my Clubhouse by visiting patreon.com/ForeverFAB.   If you are the Founder of or represent a beauty brand and want to be featured on an episode of the Forever FAB podcast segment of Fifteen Minutes of FAB, send me some stuff.  Visit ForeverFABpodcast.com and fill out the Contact form.   For general holistic beauty tips or to set up an appointment with me to discuss your personalized options for leveling up your beauty, go to ElementsandGraces.com and sign up for my newsletter.   And for an online e-consultation on time, anytime and on your time, visit Click-Lift.com for your wellness, plastic surgery, and beauty questions on the go. And… if you don't want to go anywhere or leave your home, look out for Jet Set Beauty Rx offering mobile aesthetic medical services, such as injectable fillers and multi-vitamin facial treatments.  Jet Set Beauty Rx is coming to your neighborhood soon.     Credits: Video backdrop: custom by Anyvoo Fashion: top by Altuzzara; eyewear by Tom Ford Makeup: n/a   Produced by www.oneofoneproductions.com Recorded, mixed, edited and original music by www.23dbproductions.com   Podcast Medical Disclaimer The purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. It is no substitute for professional care by your doctor or your own qualified healthcare professional. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this podcast or in any linked materials. Guests who speak on this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and Dr. Shirley Madhere neither endorses nor opposes any particular opinion discussed in this podcast. The views expressed on this podcast have no relation to those of any academic, hospital, practice, institution or other entity with which Dr. Shirley Madhere may be affiliated.

Dr. Shirley Madhere is a NYC-based plastic surgeon and Founder of Holistic Plastic Surgery.  This philosophy is based on a whole-body, mind, and spirit approach to beauty and incorporates wellness, integrative nutrition, functional aesthetics, and complementary medicine.   Dr. Madhere's approach to optimal outcomes in plastic surgery is through a lens of wellness, and is grounded in science and backed by ivy league medical study, research, and extensive surgical training.  View her menu of services at ElementsandGraces.com.  Consultations are available in-office, virtually, and online via Click-lift.com.   Coming soon: Dr. Madhere offers beauty on call services through Jet Set Beauty Rx, a mobile medical aesthetics unit delivering beauty in the privacy of your own home.  Reserve at JetSetBeautyRx.com.   As a creative outlet and means to broaden the perspective on the “spectrum of beauty,”  Dr. Madhere created Forever F.A.B., a podcast dedicated to Fashion, the Art of living well (i.e., wellness), and all things Beauty.  Visit ForeverFABpodcast.com for past and new episodes.     If you enjoy listening to the Forever F.A.B. podcast, get more audio and visuals with a membership through Patreon.  Choose the Gold, Platinum, or Diamond tier for premium added content, special co-hosts, lifestyle videos, branded merchandise, and private access to Dr. Shirley's Clubhouse by visiting patreon.com/ForeverFAB.   This week's podcast episode features an interview with Kortney Olsen.   Kortney Olson is an American-Australian bodybuilder, personal trainer, and athlete. In June 2021, she broke the Guinness World Records for the fastest time to crush three watermelons between the thighs. Olson made her competitive bodybuilding debut in November 2011. She later migrated to Australia and became Australia's first ever female arm wrestling champion in 2012. She is also the founder of Kamp Konfidence, a camp which empowers, encourages, and improves young girls and women's well-being. Olson is the founder and CEO of women's clothing company and female empowerment movement, GRRRL Clothing, which has some of the most eclectic and super-cool leggings I've ever seen. In January 2021, Olson published her memoir, titled Crushing It: How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction, & the Patriarchy. Catch the latest episode of the Forever F.A.B. podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, iheartradio, Podbean, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.  For past episodes featuring guest star interviews, beauty product reviews and innovations in plastic surgery, visit ForeverFABpodcast.com.   The F.A.B. Five according to Kortney Olson: Get into service as a way out of self-pity; Do the work.  Take responsibility for your higher education (toward your highest self); Level-up your circle.  Are you the sum of the top five people you hang out with? Learn effective communication, especially when establishing and enforcing boundaries; Repetition is the mother of all expertise.  This is the one way to build confidence. Are you ready to change the world?  Do so in FABulous leggings purchased on grrrl.com. Purchase Kortney's book, Crushing It: How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction, & the Patriarchy. Get in on the movement by following on IG: @grrrl_clothing and follow Kortney on IG: @kortney_olsen. ***** As always, if you liked this episode of the Forever FAB podcast, please share it and subscribe to the feed. Listen to past episodes or check out who's coming up next on foreverfabpodcast.com.   If you enjoy listening to the Forever F.A.B. podcast, get more audio and visuals with a membership through Patreon.  Choose the Gold, Platinum, or Diamond tier for premium added content, special co-hosts, lifestyle videos, branded merchandise, and private access to my Clubhouse by visiting patreon.com/ForeverFAB.   If you are the Founder of or represent a beauty brand and want to be featured on an episode of the Forever FAB podcast segment of Fifteen Minutes of FAB, send me some stuff.  Visit ForeverFABpodcast.com and fill out the Contact form.   For general holistic beauty tips or to set up an appointment with me to discuss your personalized options for leveling up your beauty, go to ElementsandGraces.com and sign up for my newsletter.   And for an online e-consultation on time, anytime and on your time, visit Click-Lift.com for your wellness, plastic surgery, and beauty questions on the go. And… if you don't want to go anywhere or leave your home, look out for Jet Set Beauty Rx offering mobile aesthetic medical services, such as injectable fillers and multi-vitamin facial treatments.  Jet Set Beauty Rx is coming to your neighborhood soon.     Credits: Video backdrop: custom by Anyvoo Fashion: top by Altuzzara; eyewear by Tom Ford Makeup: n/a   Produced by www.oneofoneproductions.com Recorded, mixed, edited and original music by www.23dbproductions.com   Podcast Medical Disclaimer The purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. It is no substitute for professional care by your doctor or your own qualified healthcare professional. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this podcast or in any linked materials. Guests who speak on this podcast express their own opinions, experience and conclusions, and Dr. Shirley Madhere neither endorses nor opposes any particular opinion discussed in this podcast. The views expressed on this podcast have no relation to those of any academic, hospital, practice, institution or other entity with which Dr. Shirley Madhere may be affiliated.

We know Osher Gunsberg as the host of The Bachelor franchise, but as he was handing out roses on the show, he was also battling mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, OCD and suicidal ideation. Now he's looked into what's wrong with mental health in Australia, in a documentary called A Matter of Life and Death on SBS. China's LGBTQI youth are fighting the government's conservative stance on their identity through a dance movement called voguing. Plus, some young Aussies have created a squad of robots which will compete in the robot olympics in the US. Live guests: Osher Gunsberg, TV presenter Mark Pesce, American-Australian author and futurist If you or anyone you know needs help, call Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. If someone is in immediate danger, call Triple Zero (000).

This week, we are forced to abandon our planned Mighty Joe Young episode after a mysterious package shows up in the bunker from the infamous Jigsaw Killer. .... Oh yes, there will be blood.  SAW is a 2004 American/Australian horror movie created by James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, and Tobin Bell (as Jigsaw). The story revolves around a serial killer (yes, he's a killer) who tests his victims by putting them through deadly "games" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. Games that most often result in death (or more accurately, murder). Please head over to https://www.myrodecast.com/listen/entry/3491 and vote for us in the MyRodeCast competition. Your vote really counts.   

On this wild and crazy episode, Shane and Michael sit and chat with Jake, Luke and Rob, the bandmates in Of Limbo. These dudes are hilarious and definitely brought the good times with them!. Jake and Luke Davies are American/Australian brothers that started the band a few years back. Jake is the singer and frontman that occasionally plays rhythm guitar and Luke plays lead guitar. Rob Graveley joined the band within the past couple years on bass and vocal harmonies. Be forewarned: this episode has some language or quite a bit of language. However, if that doesn't scare you away, it's an absolute blast listening to these three dudes battle and wrestle the conversation. All three bandmates have a few insane stories that they share with Shane and Michael and it's amazing that no one fell out of their chairs from laughing so hard! And the end of the episode you can listen to the band's brand new single "Get On It" and please check them out on Instagram through their handle @oflimbo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themapspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/themapspodcast/support

Listen to legendary author Joan Nestle as she elaborates on her lesbian life experiences growing up in the Bronx, coming out against the backdrop of the butch-femme bars of the 50s-60s. Hear her tales of accusations of pornography by the feminists of the 70s, co-founding the Lesbian Herstory Archives and spending the last twenty years with her love in Australia. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beth-maples-bays/support

Hey Guys! This week I have invited Mr Vishesh Bajaj on the podcast, who is a founder of Knot9 which is a media company based out Faridabad, India. Knot9 produces 4k Indian stock footages for content creators and from India and abroad. So we have all seen the advertisement on social media and billboards where people use an American/Australian guy on the ad ,which looks utterly disgusting. So when I heard about this company I became an instant fan. So in this episode we spoke about how Vishesh started out,his journey and what the future looks like for Knot9. So there is tons of wisdom for the people in the media space and for budding entrepreneurs. Hope you like it.

Today we sit with Sebastian Mallaby, a successful author and esteemed Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council of Foreign Relations. He has also been a contributing columnist for The Washington Post and previously served on the editorial board. To open the show, we put Sebastian's career into a nutshell before asking him to expand on his background. He tells us about some of his earliest memories as a young roving correspondent in Africa, cutting his teeth in journalism for The Economist. We go on to talk to Sebastian about the World Bank and discover facts about its inception and the evolution of its role since 1944. He discusses some of the World Bank's constraints before turning his attention to former president of the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn. Listeners will learn about the life and times of Jim as a human being and as a global leader. Dissecting Jim's achievements, Sebastian analyses Jim's structural adjustment programs and comments on the American-Australian's charisma and knack for communication. In the latter half of the show, we talk about the benefits of the Ease of Doing Business Index and find out Sebastian's stance on the matter. We continue our conversation and hear from Sebastian on how the world has changed since he published his book in 2004, as he contrasts between the classical left-vs.-right and modern populist-vs.-technocratic divisions. To find out more from Sebastian, his thoughts on Jim Wolfensohn, and the position of the World Bank, be sure to join us today. Key Points From This Episode: ●     Introducing today's guest, Sebastian Mallaby. ●     We take a look at some of Sebastian's career highlights before we begin. ●     Sebastian reminisces when he covered Nelson Mandela's 1990 release for The Economist. ●     Hear about the motives behind establishing the World Bank's. ●     Sebastian elaborates on the constraints of the World Bank. ●     Hear about Jim Wolfensohn's private and public life. ●     Sebastian's answers to: Is the World Bank due for a shakeup? ●     Hear Sebastian's thoughts on the Ease of Doing Business Index and its efficacy. ●     We cover the changes since Sebastian published his book in 2004. ●     Sebastian's opinion on Charter Cities, and whether or not it has changed. Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: https://twitter.com/scmallaby?lang=en (Sebastian Mallaby on Twitter) https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-mallaby-13a24936/?originalSubdomain=uk (Sebastian Mallaby on LinkedIn) https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Wolfensohn (Jim Wolfensohn) https://www.worldbank.org/ (The World Bank) https://www.carnegiehall.org/ (Carnegie Hall) https://www.aiib.org/en/index.html (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) https://www.imf.org/external/index.htm (IMF) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-S-McNamara (Robert McNamara) https://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-zoellick/?sh=61f707032374 (Robert Zoellick) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Paul-Romer (Paul Romer) https://www.stanford.edu/ (Stanford University) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Greenspan (Alan Greenspan) https://twitter.com/tylercowen?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (Tyler Cowen) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003SNJZ3Y/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 (More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CDVCAXS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1 (The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ (The Washington Post) https://www.economist.com/ (The Economist) Support this podcast

Follow the PTB Network on Twitter and Instagram It's the middle of the week grind today on Parking the Bus!! In this North American/Australian edition "the Mister" Mike Agostinho will bring y'all up to speed in these lesser followed footballing nations. This week we'll start in Australia and look back at Round 1 of the #HyundaiALeague as they kick off a brand new season down under!! Then the Bus will travel and Park in the USA and we'll look back at last month's MLS Cup final between Columbus Crew SC and Seattle Sounders before we take it south to Mexico and look at the Liga MX Apertura Final and see how Leon were once again crowned Champions, plus look at ahead at next opening round of Liga MX Clausura 2021! Lastly after the leagues had finished up their seasons CONNCACAF finally got around to completing the #CONCACAFChampionsLeague, the mister will review the week long tournament that crowned the new Champion of the confederation and the continent. It's all here on Episode 19 of Parking the Bus! *** Catch all the English language coverage surrounding Portuguese giants Benfica by subscribing to the Mister Benfica Podcast or listen at www.misterbenfica.com ***

Dora and the Lost City of Gold is a 2019 American-Australian adventure comedy film that is a live-action adaptation of the Nick Jr animated television series Dora the Explorer and directed by James Bobin. The film stars Isabela Moner, Eugenio Derbez, Michael Peña, with Eva Longoria, and Danny Trejo as the voice of Boots. The film serves as Dora’s final send off. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nacho-nostalgia/support

Tom and Jenny talk about the fun, grisly holiday horror flick Better Watch Out (aka Safe Neighborhood), an American/Australian co-production. Audio version: Video version: Please support us on Patreon! Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel, like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram. And check out our cool merch at our Zazzle store, and some board and … Continue reading Matinee LIVE: Better Watch Out (2016)

Book Vs Movie: Harold and Maude The Colin Higgins Story & the Direction of Hal Ashby The Margos want to sing out! Today’s special episode is based on the novelization of a screenplay by the talented Colin Higgins who manages to good luck his way into having his first attempt at a screenplay produced by Paramount in 1971. Before that, he was an American-Australian who traveled around the globe trying to figure out how to turn his passion for writing into a career. (He would go on to write & direct 9 to 5!) Harold and Maude became the second film of legendary director Hal Ashby who won an Oscar for editing In The Heat of the Night in 1967 and was eager for the challenge of creating a movie about peace and love.  The film stars Bud Cort as Harold Chason, a young, lonely man obsessed with death and pranks his stiff, upper-crust mother (played by Vivian Pickles) by staging phony suicides. (This is a very dark comedy, by the way!)  One of his hobbies is attending funerals for strangers where he meets his soulmate--Maude Chardin. Maude is 79 years old and lives her life to the fullest. Together they discover the glories of planting trees, stealing cars, music, and fighting the good fight.  Academy Award-winning actress Ruth Gordon plays Maude and this ultimately uplifting film has been a cult favorite since its release in 1971 (though it was trashed by the critics at the time.)   We talk about the journey of Harold and Maude from the script stage to the inclusion of Cat Stevens’s music which makes the whole movie feel like a wonderful daydream.  We also want to give a special shout-out to the Hal documentary directed by Amy Scott and the book Hal Ashby and the Making of Harold and Maude by James A. Davidson which were essential to our research.  Listen to this episode to hear us talk about the book & movie and decide which we like better.  In this ep the Margos discuss: The intriguing lives of Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby Behind the scenes trivia about the filming of the movie in the Bay Area  How the music of Cat Stevens is its own character in the story The controversial nature of the May December romance between the leads The cast: Bud Cort (Harold,) Ruth Gordon (Maude,) Vivian Pickles (Mrs. Chasen,) Cyril Cusack (Glaucus,) Charles Tyner (Uncle Victor,) Eric Christmas (Priest,) George Wood (Psychiatrist,) Ellen Geer (Sunshine Dore,) Judy Engles (Candy,) Tom Skerritt (credited as “M. Borman”) as the cop.  Clips used: Maude encourages Harold to LIVE Maude steals a car Mrs. Chasen applies for computer dating for Harold Harold’s Date, Sunshine Dore, and her scene as Juliette Tom Skerrit as the police officer Music by Cat Stevens  Join our Patreon page to help support the show! https://www.patreon.com/bookversusmovie  Book Vs. Movie podcast https://www.facebook.com/bookversusmovie/ Twitter @bookversusmovie www.bookversusmovie.com Email us at bookversusmoviepodcast@gmail.com Brought to you by Audible.com You can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here http://www.audible.com/?source_code=PDTGBPD060314004R   Margo D. @BrooklynFitChik www.brooklynfitchick.com brooklynfitchick@gmail.com Margo P. @ShesNachoMama https://coloniabook.weebly.com/   

Takiaya Reed and Sylvie Nehill of the American / Australian drone duo Divide and Dissolve share how their experiences as Black & Tsalagi [Cherokee]and Māori women has informed their heavy sound. Mirroring the brash, bone-crushing potency of their dynamic Drone music, the formidable Takiaya Reed (saxophone, guitar, live effects) and Sylvie Nehill (drums, live effects) carry their fight and ancestors fight forward, using the power of their performances to raw attention to the ongoing battle against system oppression.

What will be the effect of the US presidential election results in Australia? What is the trend of migration voters? Listen the analysis of an American-Australian academic Dr. Saleem Ali. Also Raja Saqib, a visitor who is touring different US states trying to gauge the mood and the atmosphere during the last leg of the US presidential election campaign. - امریکی صدارتی انتخابات کے نتائیج کا آسٹریلیا پر کیا اثر پڑے گا۔تارکینِ وطن ووٹرز کا جھکاؤ کس طرف ہے؟ آسٹریلین ۔ امریکن اکیڈمک ڈاکٹر سلیم علی اور امریکی ریاستوں میں انتخابی مہم کے سیاحی جائیزہ کار راجہ ثاقب کی بات چیت میں سنئےامریکی صدارتی انتخابی مہم کے آخری لمحات کا احوال۔

This week's episode is one our Northern hemisphere listeners have been waiting for! Enjoy having a giggle along with Kirsty and Amy as they share your experiences and a few of their own about getting Lost in Translation, all the while hopefully bringing some clarity to your confusion. This is a funny one so be prepared for much laughter!!In this episode we:● Attempt to translate some confusing Australian terms into American and British English● Encourage you to ask questions and make suggestions in our Facebook community;● Learn what Amy keeps in her boot;● Remind you that you can book a virtual session with Amy or KirstyThings mentioned in this episode and other helpful links:● Links for American/Australian glossary websites https://www.fionalake.com.au/info/translations/australian-american-words , https://www.aussieontheroad.com/lost-in-translation/● To book a virtual session email hello@theartofdecluttering.com.auBig thanks to Nina for her speakpipe and email that inspired the episode and to all of the other listeners who sent emails or gave suggestions in the Facebook community;Join our community ● Our website The Art of Decluttering● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly support makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Support can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's episode is one our Northern hemisphere listeners have been waiting for! Enjoy having a giggle along with Kirsty and Amy as they share your experiences and a few of their own about getting Lost in Translation, all the while hopefully bringing some clarity to your confusion. This is a funny one so be prepared for much laughter!!In this episode we:● Attempt to translate some confusing Australian terms into American and British English● Encourage you to ask questions and make suggestions in our Facebook community;● Learn what Amy keeps in her boot;● Remind you that you can book a virtual session with Amy or Kirsty● And so so so so much more...We hope from this conversation we all learn something and put a smile on your face!Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links:● Peter Walsh episode● Diaries and Calendars episode● Journals episode● Wallets vs Purses episode● Links for American/Australian glossary websites https://www.fionalake.com.au/info/translations/australian-american-words , https://www.aussieontheroad.com/lost-in-translation/● To book a virtual session email hello@theartofdecluttering.com.auBig thanks to Nina for her speakpipe and email that inspired the episode and to all of the other listeners who sent emails or gave suggestions in the Facebook community;Join our community ● Our website The Art of Decluttering● Become a Patron with Patreon – your monthly support makes a huge difference to us being able to producethis podcast. Support can be as little as $1 a month!● Follow us on Instagram● Follow us on Facebook● Join our Facebook group● Leave a review on Apple PodcastThank you to our sound engineer, Jarred from Four4ty Studio Productions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Under the never-ending clickity-clack of the train line, the guys catch up in a brewery for a little Diplomacy chat... and the odd drink or two! Intro The guys introduce the show, the venue and their drinks (0 mins 10 secs) They talk about surfing, waterskiing and serenity (2 mins 45 secs) Around the grounds They flag there may be a bit of train noise in the background as they're near a rail line. Kaner asks Amby how his games are going. Amby talks about the Big Hitters game (5 mins 20 secs) Amby discusses his offer to GM a Winning game for players in the Winning thread (7 mins 15 secs) Amby goes onto discuss how badly he's doing in the Cloak and Dagger series, being played on a Modern Europe map (10 mins) He then discusses his (surprise surprise) elimination from the Media Wars game and how the other players are going (12 mins) Kaner in Quarantine Amby thinks he stuffed up the recording (he didn't) before giving a drinks update (16 mins) Kaner discusses the impact of his workplace being shutdown due to Covid-19 (18 mins 15 secs) Amby explains why the podcast was delayed a week due to the changes Kaner needed to accommodate into at work (25 mins) They talk about the Patreon episode they recorded while he was in quarantine. They discuss their alliance game against the bots at webDip (25 mins 45 secs) Around the grounds (part 2) and Diplomacy chat Kaner gives an update on his "Where's Kaner" Europa Renovation games and the troubles of internet loading issues when orders are due (30 mins 15 secs) Amby touches on his Atlantic Colonies game (32 mins 45 secs) He goes onto mention one of the games he's trying to get started: Italian Stallions using the Machiavelli map, the first Diplomacy map Amby ever played on (35 mins 15 secs) They talk about old military/political strategy books and whether that'd help gameplay eg Machiavelli's "The Prince", von Clausewitz's "On War", Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" and the Roman general Frontinus' "Strategemata" (37 mins 30 secs) Amby discusses Aristotle's "Modes of Persuasion" in the devices of rhetoric: ethos, pathos and logos (40 mins 15 secs) Kaner raises a Reddit post about strategy for multiple people playing together as a single country and how to approach things (44 mins 30 secs) Amby thinks a bonus WDC day of tournament players doing this group game would be awesome (55 mins) Kaner gives credit to the teacher/professor for creating such a game scenario. Amby touches on the playDip forum thread for teachers (56 mins 30 secs) They touch on their upcoming interview. The guys give an apology/clarification about their comments about the Conspiracy app and its recognition of variant creators (58 mins 45 secs) Amby brings up Kaner's United States of Panhandle t-shirt which was originally posted on Reddit. They go onto discuss the r/MapPorn thread including where in the United States you can own a kangaroo. They go onto more American/Australian crossovers with emus (1 hr 2 mins) They mention their next interviewee is David E. Cohen (1 hr 8 mins) The guys give another shout-out for their Patreon bonus episodes. Amby reflects on Kaner's value add to the podcast before they wrap up (1 hr 9 mins) Venue: Stone & Wood Brewery, Brisbane Drinks of choice: Kaner:  Stone Rock porter and West Coast Extra IPA from Stone & Wood Amby:  Cloud Catcher Pale Ale, West Coast Extra IPA and Stone Rock porter from Stone & Wood Just a reminder you can support the show by giving it 5 stars on iTunes or Stitcher. And don't forget if you want to help improve the audio equipment... or get the guys more drunk, you can also donate at Patreon, plus you get extra podcast episodes! Lastly, don't forget to subscribe so you get the latest Diplomacy Games episodes straight to your phone. Thanks as always to Dr Dan aka "The General" for his rockin' intro tune.

In this Episode of Hunting for Purpose, we're talking to Mindset and Launch Expert, Emily Mearns, who I absolutely adore! We talk about all the things that are happening in the world from our respective perspectives: about the Black Lives Matter Movement, how things are developing in America and the fallout here in Australia. We talk about the spiritual implications of this awakening, the recent shifts in the racial oppression narrative, how we're personally educating ourselves and amplifying Melanated and Indigineous voices on our respective platforms. If you're a spiritual, white woman entrepreneur, feeling overwhelmed and maybe even helpless in trying to radically shift with this immensely emotional wave that we're all in, my hope is that you will be inspired and supported by this interview, that you will take the decision to keep pushing forward to do your inner work and unpack your own biases through education and deep healing. You are needed, your voice and support is needed. Please don't retreat in this incredibly important time! And if you need support with all of this, please get the “Do the Inner Work” Bundle for only $9, all proceeds go to organizations amplifying indigenous voices in Australia, to both educate and heal yourself while supporting a crucial cause! Connect with Emily Website: https://emilymearns.podia.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/emily_mearns Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2441641602736890/ Connect with Holly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehollymaree/ Work with Holly: https://hollyherbig.podia.com/ Do the Inner Work Bundle: https://hollyherbig.podia.com/do-the-inner-work/ If you're loving this podcast, please make sure to leave a written review on iTunes so that more purpose-hunters can find us and we can support each other with even more high value conversations! I am so grateful to have you here! Love, Holly Maree

In this Episode of Hunting for Purpose, we’re talking to Mindset and Launch Expert, Emily Mearns, who I absolutely adore! We talk about all the things that are happening in the world from our respective perspectives: about the Black Lives Matter Movement, how things are developing in America and the fallout here in Australia. We talk about the spiritual implications of this awakening, the recent shifts in the racial oppression narrative, how we’re personally educating ourselves and amplifying Melanated and Indigineous voices on our respective platforms.   If you’re a spiritual, white woman entrepreneur, feeling overwhelmed and maybe even helpless in trying to radically shift with this immensely emotional wave that we’re all in, my hope is that you will be inspired and supported by this interview, that you will take the decision to keep pushing forward to do your inner work and unpack your own biases through education and deep healing.  You are needed, your voice and support is needed. Please don’t retreat in this incredibly important time!   And if you need support with all of this, please get the “Do the Inner Work” Bundle for only $9, all proceeds go to organizations amplifying indigenous voices in Australia, to both educate and heal yourself while supporting a crucial cause!   Connect with Emily Website: https://emilymearns.podia.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/emily_mearns Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2441641602736890/   Connect with Holly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehollymaree/ Work with Holly: https://hollyherbig.podia.com/ Do the Inner Work Bundle: https://hollyherbig.podia.com/do-the-inner-work/   If you’re loving this podcast, please make sure to leave a written review on iTunes so that more purpose-hunters can find us and we can support each other with even more high value conversations! I am so grateful to have you here!   Love, Holly Maree

Hello again all you beautiful essential podcast listeners! Is black magic one of the skills you have been thinking about learning while we are all on lock down? Ever wanted to make out in a cemetery? Ever wanted to wait until midnight then bring blood and jewels to a witch who lives in a jungle? Well do we have a treat for you! We watched one of Indonesia's cult classics Mystics In Bali. Join us as we follow a young American/Australian black magic tourist as she non nonchalantly becomes the disciple of a Leyak "Master" and literately has a out of body experience. Other Indonesian cult movie gems: The Devil's Sword Lady Terminator Virgins from Hell Satan's Slave Lady Exterminator

Dave Ives is a perpetually happy American Australian living in Alice Springs. Originally from New Hampshire, Dave joined the US Air Force as a medic and worked in the US until he was posted to Womera in outback South Australia. He met his Filipino wife there. They eventually returned to the US but Australia’s Cupid’s arrow had pierced Dave’s heart. He returned to Womera as a civilian and then moved to Alice Springs with his wife and two girls. Dave Ives is Alice Springs’s biggest fan. He has written six books about his life and released songs about Alice Springs. This is Dave’s Territory Story. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/territorystory/message

Joined by your new favourite American-Australian songwriter/producer duo Dylan and James of RIP Youth. We chat all things from friendship to making music together, their new single 'You Love' and about our faves Nat Dunn and JoJo + more. Check out their music here -> https://open.spotify.com/artist/5TfJOPnn5W7FT9dj8ueXQd

Julie And Rhonda quiz each other on Australian and American slang, respectively.EPISODE NOTES: Continuing our American-Australian cultural exchange, Julie and Rhonda practice epic social distancing and teach each other slang words from their respective home countries and regions, including “bogan,” “grunge,” “togs,” “geoduck,” and many more… Find Musicals Taught Me, Elvis Lives, and Pop DNA wherever you find great podcasts!Spoiler: this is a Geoduck:https://oceana.org/marine-life/cephalopods-crustaceans-other-shellfish/geoduckSubscribe to us on ITUNES, STITCHER, SPOTIFY, or your podcatcher of choice.Find us on FACEBOOK, TWITTER or INSTAGRAM.Become a Patron of That's Not Canon Productions at Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE. Eve Picker: [00:00:03] Hey, everyone, this is Eve Picker. And if you listen to this podcast series, you're going to learn how to make some change.   Eve Picker: [00:00:19] Eve Picker: Thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing. My guest today is Jeremy McLeod. Jeremy is the founding director of Breathe Architecture, an architecture studio located in Melbourne, Australia. Breathe is a world class architecture firm delivering fabulous projects to its clients. But Jeremy isn't resting on his laurels. He really cares about the ever widening gap between those who have wealth and those who do not. And so 12 years ago, he embarked on a journey to deliver sustainability and affordability in one housing model. His first project, The Commons, was met with huge success. Now, with a waiting list of over 8000 buyers, he intends his Nightingale project to be an open source housing model led by architects. Be sure to go to Eve Picker dot com to find out more about Jeremy on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform,Small Change.   Eve Picker: [00:01:35] So hi, Jeremy. It's really lovely to finally meet you.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:01:40] Yeah, I did think we were doing this interview over Zoom so I was surprised to see you in my office in Australia. Thanks for coming.   Eve Picker: [00:01:46] Oh, you thought it was by Zoom. I told you it was local. It's really fun to be recording in your beautiful building and actually see it because I've really wanted to do that for a long time. So you're an architect and you've taken your fabulous education and you're working on a new housing model for Melbourne, Australia, where we're recording today. And I wanted to talk about what's kind of driven you to think about that, to develop a better housing model and what even that means.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:02:16] It's not hard to build a better housing model in Australia. It's because our housing system is broken. I mean, the interesting thing about Australia is that we're the richest country per capita in the world, yet we have one of the highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the world. But importantly, we have over, at the last census, we have over one hundred and sixteen thousand homeless people here. So for an incredibly wealthy country with lots of opportunity, there's incredible inequity here. And that inequity is growing. In countries, you know, Scandinavian countries or Austria or Germany or anywhere in Europe, basically, there's an affordable housing requirement. In London there's inclusionary zoning which requires you to put in 20 percent affordable housing. In New York there's inclusionary zoning, but in Australia there is no inclusionary zoning, which means that the private housing developers can build whatever they want without including any affordable housing.   Eve Picker: [00:03:18] So, not held accountable for the economy at all.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:03:20] No, absolutely not. And so in that instance, then you would assume it's the responsibility of the state to provide housing for its people. But in the 1980s, state governments around the country started divesting their responsibility for housing and people through a public housing system and started giving it to smaller, not-for-profit organizations, church-based or faith-based organizations or community housing providers to provide housing. And they started selling down their assets and importantly, stopped building housing. And so what we've seen is a steady growth of homelessness at the same time as a steady growth in wealth in this country. As an architect. I mean, before I was an architect, I studied environmental design. So I understand, you know, inherently the issues around climate change. I've looked at the issues around the last IPCC report which says that, you know, if we're not careful, we're going to find 2 billion refugees globally, a billion coming out of Africa and a billion coming out of Asia. Where do you think those people are going to be? And we also understand that people at the edges are the people that suffer the most in times of climate change. So, I mean, I think that climate change and homelessness and housing are all intrinsically linked and that we need to resolve both those issues simultaneously. And we need to resolve those issues very rapidly. The state doesn't... has divested their responsibility. and the private sector obviously is interested in returning profit to their shareholders, not in delivering kind of, you know, on corporate responsibility goals that, you know, may or may not exist within their boardrooms. So the idea for us was that we would build a model, a prototype basically to encourage private developers to change the way that they worked. And our contention was that you can build housing that simultaneously builds community that is sustainable and that is affordable and it returns some fair and reasonable return back to investors.   Eve Picker: [00:05:35] You thought this was an important role for you as an architect? Because it's an unusual role for an architect.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:05:44] Yeah. Look, I mean, of course, my first love is architecture. I would love to just design great buildings all day, every day. I would love to build great housing. But as an architect yourself, you would understand that to make a great project, you need three things. You need a great architect, you need a great builder, you need a great client. And so if we're trying to build great housing projects in Melbourne, it was, you know, let's assume for a moment that Breathe Architecture was a great architect. I can find a great builder, but I couldn't find a great client. So for us to be able to deliver on the projects that we needed to, I felt that the only way was to become our own client.   Eve Picker: [00:06:26] That makes sense.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:06:28] Yeah. And to basically build a system that could be replicated, that was kind of the birth of Nightingale.   Eve Picker: [00:06:35] Right. I watched your TedX talk, which I thought was really interesting. And you said that there's a population explosion going on here, which I know, but I think I didn't realize it was quite so rapid. But how many people in Melbourne today?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:06:48] So there's five million at the moment. We're going towards 8 million by 2050. It's essentially a hundred thousand Melbournians every year for the next 30.   Eve Picker: [00:06:57] I think it's one of the fastest growing cities in the world, right?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:07:00] Yeah. So interestingly, we've always been smaller than Sydney. We've always been the little sister to Sydney and we're now about to outstrip Sydney in terms of population.   Eve Picker: [00:07:08] Yeah, I can feel it every time I come and visit. You talked in that TedX talk about urban compression versus urban sprawl, which I thought was a really great way of describing what's available and what's probably true in most of the United States as well. The idea being that urban compression is like warehousing people in really dense, maybe warehousing isn't a way to say it, but building very dense, high-rise housing products in inner cities versus urban sprawl, which is building, you know, the American/Australian dream of a house on a lot. Right? And not much in between yet. So what's in between look like?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:07:50] Well, I mean, the interesting thing here is it's all about politics, right. So, in the centre of our city, it's all old commercial land. It was a commercial centre. So it's easy to build one hundred and eight story towers there to warehouse people, so to say, because no one objects to that, because everyone sees that if someone builds a 108 stories there, then I can then build my old shop to 108 stories and I'll get that value uplift. So it's a great capital gain. And the city, in the middle ring suburbs, so in all the places really close to infrastructure, schools, hospitals, work, public transport, those areas there are all held by the city's wealthiest population. They're well-moneyed, they're well resourced  and they've got a very, very loud political voice. And they say very clearly to the state planning minister and to the state politicians that they don't want any increase in density around them. But like San Francisco, instead, they've got no issue with density per se, just not in my backyard.   Eve Picker: [00:09:04] Yes. NIMBY, right?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:09:06] So that's right. So they're the NIMBYs. So, instead what happens is that if you're a first time buyer in Australia, if you could possibly afford to be a first time buyer here, you can't afford to buy a house in the middle ring suburbs close to work, close to hospitals, close to schools.   Eve Picker: [00:09:22] Yeah, you're very far away.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:09:24] You end up very far away. So in Sydney, I saw a graph recently where if you're a nurse and you work in a hospital and you're a first home buyer, you're an hour and a half away from the nearest hospital that you are working in.   Eve Picker: [00:09:37] Wow.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:09:37] That's three hours every day. Yeah.   Eve Picker: [00:09:40] So in effect, those people are really the ones that need to be closer to the city and need to be, have access to public transit.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:09:48] Absolutely.   Eve Picker: [00:09:49] And of all of those things to make, to make their lives work.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:09:52] Well, to make the city work for all the well-moneyed people as well, you know. Yeah. So the city works because of those people. And so, and the other issue that we've got in Melbourne is this incredible sprawl issue where currently we have built over 40 percent of our farming land. So we've got 60 percent of our farming land left, but our population is growing at unprecedented rates. At the same time, we've got pressure where China is coming in and buying our farming resources. So they're buying, you know, beef, dairy, big farmland, so I worry about food security for, you know, for Australians in the future when there's 1.5 billion Chinese and 600 million middle class Chinese, you know, in a time when food security becomes a big issue all of our food will be being exported.   Eve Picker: [00:10:49] Wow.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:10:49] So I see that as this incredible, this madness of us building over all of our good farming land.   Eve Picker: [00:10:56] And then the other piece of it is, I think you and I agree on this, that many new buildings are built as a financial commodity. And really, they're really about making money not about making place better, which is really disturbing to me because I think you can take the same money and build, you know, add to a city in a really meaningful way or not, right? So...   Jeremy McLeod: [00:11:20] Yeah, looking at examples, like there's a suburb in Sydney called Ultimo and over 90 % of Ultimo has been bought by investors. So essentially a lot of our apartments, and in Melbourne, in   Eve Picker: [00:11:36] And is that, like, little single-family houses or...   Jeremy McLeod: [00:11:38] No, so it's all apartments. So the whole, nearly all ...   Eve Picker: [00:11:41] So it's a bit of a ghost town then? Or is it just all rental?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:11:44] Well, a lot of it is rental. You know, until very recently, there were no foreign ownership maximums on how much of an apartment or, or how much of a building you could sell to foreign owners. So we were. we had Australian developers selling 100 percent of their buildings to offshore waiting lists in Kuala Lumpur or Shanghai. We would find that, you know, whole buildings are owned by offshore investors that have never been to the city or have never seen the actual apartments. They bought it off a spreadsheet through, through an investment vehicle. And of course, when you get a city built on a spreadsheet, it becomes a pretty, pretty sad outcome.   Eve Picker: [00:12:24] Right. So your journey started in 2007 when you bought the piece of land where you're sitting on right now, right?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:12:35] Yeah.   Eve Picker: [00:12:35] And, so where did you begin?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:12:38] Well, so maybe  I'll go back to 1972 when I was born. So, so my parents were a couple of hippies. When I was about eleven, my dad took me to old Parliament House to lobby the government then about public housing in a suburb called Footscray in Melbourne. So then I go on study sustainability, environmental design, and then I go on to be an architect where my focus is on studying housing. I then work for a big firm, and when I'm working in that big firm, I end up working on, you know, 88 story towers, which just, you know,.   Eve Picker: [00:13:18] And the toilet details, right?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:13:19] Yeah. Yeah, lots of toilet details, lots of stairs, correct. But it was the last building that I worked on in that big practice, I was working on the carpark for six weeks.   Eve Picker: [00:13:29] Oh, that's really crushing.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:13:30] And I thought that that was crushing and I didn't think it was a good use of my time or, it wasn't that I was interested in, you know, housing cars. What a meaningless act. So I start Breathe Architecture in 2001. When I started Breathe Architecture, the simple idea was that every room would have a window so the occupants could breathe.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:13:53] So in 2007, as an architect working in the city, we'd been working for a bunch of property developers. It was, it was disappointing. We resigned a couple of commissions, we got fired from a couple of commissions because we wouldn't back down on certain things like, you know, we wouldn't take the solar panels off the roof. We wouldn't take the,.. yeah, yeah, we wouldn't take the solar hot water out of the  building. We wanted to make sure that we got winter sun into the building, you know, like. really simple things that we wouldn't back down on.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:14:29] So after that, we decided that we would partner with some other architects and we would try and embark on building a prototype building. So there were six of us. Six architects. We all came together, we bought this site. It was originally called Nightingale back in 2007, and it took us until 2013 to finish it. So it took us six years. In the middle of it, thanks to sub-prime issues in the United States, the financial crisis washed across the shores to Australia. By the time I needed finance to build this...the idea was that it would be a zero carbon building. A building that focused on sustainability and community and affordability. By the time I needed to get money for that, it was after the financial crisis had actually, bit into Australia as well, and we lost our funding to build it. And so then...   Eve Picker: [00:15:22] Why did you lose the funding, is it because banks just got more conservative? Or..   Jeremy McLeod: [00:15:28] Yeah, banks just got more conservative.   Eve Picker: [00:15:30] So the same reasons I saw in the States.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:15:33] Yeah, and look, I actually don't blame the bank. I think that leading up to the global financial crisis, you know, it was too easy to get money. So as a group of six architects, you know, we were about to borrow seven point one million dollars, you know, on a kind of prototype project that hadn't been built before. So I can understand why the bank was nervous by the time, you know, we got into, you know, 2010, 2011.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:16:01] We went and met with a whole different raft of impact investors. We met a group called Small Giants and Small Giants bought the project off us. They renamed the project from Nightingale to the Commons because their marketing team thought that was a good idea. I can, I can live with it, but you know, what's in, what's in a name. But anyway, the Commons then ended up being delivered and in 2014, it won the National Award for Sustainability, the National Award for Housing. And it became, you know, kind of a destination for people to come and look at. And so in the following year, we opened the building up for tours. We took every property developer in the city through. We took Melbourne residents through. And we talked a lot about, you know, the importance of change in our housing model. And then the idea was, off the back of that, that we would influence change in the marketplace.   Eve Picker: [00:17:01] Well, that was one of my questions here. Has your work influenced the status quo?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:17:06] Well, the interesting thing was that when we, when we completed the Commons and it won all those awards, and it got lots of media and lots of people were interested, the answer to that is no. It was seen as an exception to the rule. And so, the idea was that the pilot project or the prototype project would influence change, but it was seen as an outlier.   Eve Picker: [00:17:26] Interesting. And like just breaking up a bit. So what is different about the Commons, this building?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:17:32] So the Commons, I think that if you want to build something that's affordable and sustainable simultaneously, every project manager says that you can't do that. Every project manager will tell you that sustainability is more expensive and so to build sustainability means that you can't build it affordably. And so instead, Bonnie Herring, who was the project architect of Breathe who led this project, her whole approach was one of sustainability through reductionism. So she constantly interrogated the idea is, if we don't need it, take it out. Ask people, what are the things they actually need not what they want from some real estate glossy brochure.   Eve Picker: [00:18:14] What they think they need because everyone else has it right.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:18:17] Yeah, but when we when we started talking to people, the interesting thing was that what people actually wanted was space, light, outlook, plants, you know, natural materials. No one wanted marble bench tops, you know, a thousand down lights, white shag-pile carpet, a swimming pool, three bathrooms, you know, what people actually wanted, we were finding, was just kind of really good meaningful housing. So our approach on The Commons was, yes, sustainability through reductionism. If I step you through that, you'll see that it makes total sense. So the first thing is, we took the basement car parking out. And why is that important? So, for a seven million dollar building, the basement car park was gonna cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. So by taking that out, we reduced the build cost by over 10 per cent. But importantly, we just, we didn't just reduce the price of all the apartments by $30000 each. We also took some of that money and put it into making the rooftop garden, you know, really incredible. Where you would have ordinarily had a driveway coming in off the street and a ramp up and then a ramp down to get into that driveway and a roller door to close that driveway off to get down to the basement carpark, instead, Instead of having that there, we put in a wine shop where the driveway and the ramp would have been.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:19:42] And then we sold the wine shop for four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. We then took the revenue from the wine shop and we used it to increase all of our glazing to get the best possible double glazing that money could buy in the country at the time. We pumped up all of the insulation on our walls. So we made all of our walls fatter. we got better insulation in them. So we used that money to improve the thermal envelope of the building. Then, that then made the apartments perform...so we've got the star rating system here, so you need kind of, you need a minimum of five stars or an average of six stars to be able to get a building permit here. And instead, we set the minimum at seven and a half stars here. The panacea is 10 stars means you don't require any energy for heating or cooling, which would be incredible. But we'll make it to seven and a half stars out there. More modelling told us that the building could operate within a thermal comfort range of between 19 and 27 degrees. And the interesting thing is that that's kind of the European thermal comfort range of the Germans deemed that to be.   Eve Picker: [00:20:47] So that's all Celsius right now. Got it. That's about ...oh I can't do that in my head right now. We'll figure it out later.our Yeah, I'll let you do the calculations. You'll figure it out later.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:20:57] But but basically, the Australian thermal comfort range, you know, is generally been seen to be in between 19 and 22 degrees.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:21:08] So by stretching it out from nineteen to twenty seven, the German comfort range, all of a sudden we found that we didn't need to put air conditioning in. When we take air conditioning out, we save another 5 percent out of the building costs throughout the building and obviously drastically reduce the operational costs and operational energy required in the building. Normally every two bedroom apartment in Melbourne at that time was being designed with two bathrooms. So a primary bathroom and then an en suite to the master bedroom. Instead we took out all of the en suites, so we had one bathroom in each apartment. We kept them at the same size. So the apartments, by taking out the really energy intensive detail-heavy bathrooms, we saved about $10,000 out of the cost of each of the apartments and all the living rooms got seven square meters bigger, which is 70 square feet. We took out all of all of the individual laundries out of each of the apartments and instead put one beautiful laundry on the rooftop, which overlooks an incredible rooftop garden.   Eve Picker: [00:22:14] And I assume you could save money on all the stacks. Correct. And the space in the unit. Correct. So everyone's. Exactly right. And the cost of all these appliances. Exactly. Seventy costs.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:22:28] Exactly. You get it. You get it. So you do that over and over again. We have one shared Internet connection. So we bring fibre into the building and we share that Internet throughout the building. So we pay for it at one point and then we use bulk buying to share that. It gets really, really cheap, really, really fast internet in a city where the Internet here is expensive.   Eve Picker: [00:22:47] That's smart. That's a very good idea generally to buy it as a retailer.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:22:50] It's expensive and it's poor quality here. And we do the same thing with the power through an embedded network.   Eve Picker: [00:22:57] So it's this constant that you're a very pragmatic approach. It's really pragmatic, pragmatic to chisel away what's really necessary in a building and and really make it work. Yeah. And think about it.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:23:10] You know, what can you share? It's all about sharing and using, you know, bulk buying and trying to get maximum utilization. So you know what? Our laundry, for example, is six washing machines, which could use a lot more than having, you know, 24 washing machines that get used in a very infrequently.   Eve Picker: [00:23:28] I think a lot of people might find that concept difficult, but I suppose you don't need to find a lot for one building do you.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:23:38] Well, I mean, initially when we started when we finished this project and we started work on Nightingale 1 and I'll tell you why we started Nightingale 1, there were eleven people that had written to us to say, if you're going to build another building, like The Commons, can you please let us know. And so we put those eleven people on a waiting list. That waiting list through Nightingale housing is eight and a half thousand people.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:24:03] So apparently there is eight and a half thousand people in Melbourne that would be happy to have a cheaper apartment with a bigger living room, with a beautiful shared rooftop laundry ,with one bathroom, with no individual or private car parking, but with a free car-share membership to, you know, 20 cars parked within a 400 meter radius.   Eve Picker: [00:24:29] And to be fair, in a beautifully designed building.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:24:33] Thank you.   Eve Picker: [00:24:35] I'll sign up for the waiting list!   Jeremy McLeod: [00:24:38] I think the great thing about, you know, being your own client is that you can definitely make sure that the architecture is what it should be.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:24:49] So I actually for people listening in, the thing that's also very incredible here is The Commons. This building sits right on a railway line. You can see there you can see the station. Out of the windows. So it's really it's really a transit oriented development as well, which really makes it much easier not to have a car.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:25:08] Yeah, absolutely. So there's that train station right next door or the bike path right next door or the 503 bus and then the tramline.   Eve Picker: [00:25:16] And the garage packed full of bikes.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:25:18] Yeah. So we do have the highest ratio of bikes to apartments in the country. Yeah, but the interesting thing about that is that we just looked at what were the bike ratios used in the Netherlands and then we used those and brought that over here. So it's not none of this is rocket science, at least, you know. How's it been done?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:25:36] So you have investors in this project and how did they do?   [00:25:42] So in the Commons there were six architects and all of us and we all invested. So Tamara and I, my partner and I, yeah, we literally bet the house on it. And so, yeah, out of the Commons, we did at the end of the project when Small Giants, we bought the site, we redesigned the site, we got the D.A. approval, we got the price in place. Then we had to sell the project at Small Giants. They sold they bought the project back off us. And at that point we had bought the site for five hundred and forty five thousand and we sold it back to them for two million dollars.   Eve Picker: [00:26:23] How did they do then?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:26:27] Eventually, they never actually disclosed to me how they did, but they built and entire brand off the back of The Commons.   Eve Picker: [00:26:35] There you go!   Jeremy McLeod: [00:26:36] But interestingly, everything sold in The Commons. The project was delivered on time and on budget. And you know.   Eve Picker: [00:26:43] And did it sell quickly?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:26:45] Yes. And that kind of thing else was.   Eve Picker: [00:26:48] Yeah, that's probably keeping in a project like this, because having a couple of vacant units if your profit and a building like this.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:26:54] Yeah. That didn't happen here.   Eve Picker: [00:26:57] That's fantastic. So then, you know, the triple bottom line here actually made a financial return as well. That's a pretty strong argument for doing the right thing. Yeah. How hard is it to find investors who really care about the triple bottom line?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:27:16] Well, so maybe let me let me just come back to the move from The Commons to Nightingale 1. Or why we started Nightingale Housing. Do you want to hear?   Eve Picker: [00:27:25] Oh, yeah, absolutely.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:27:26] So this idea that that the Commons would drive change by being a prototype building. And I said before that it kind of failed because it was seen as the exception, not the rule. What we decided to do after that first, you know, with that wait list of eleven people was to, if if the market wouldn't change, then we would drive change in the market and we would continue to build buildings until such a time as the market actually came to us, you know, until we didn't need to exist any longer. So we established Nightingale Housing. We got some corporate sponsorship. We got a government grant. We got a grant from the National Australia Bank. So we built a really small team of about three of us and we embarked on Nightingale One.   Eve Picker: [00:28:15] And that's a non-profit driven.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:28:18] Yes. So Nightingale One was still delivered. And the way that we wrote that feasibility study was that we capped the return at 15 per cent per annum and then we capped that return at a three year project timeline. So essentially it was a gross return of forty-five per cent over three years. So there was a lot of pressure on us to deliver that for our investors to deliver it within the three year time window.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:28:42] So - to get to get - we tried to do that at 10 per cent per annum. And when we tried to raise impact investment to build a carbon neutral building. So when we tried to raise equity,  I spoke to probably 60 architects in the city because I wanted architects to invest in it. I wanted architects to own it. I want to share the IP with architects that would take it and scale the idea. I met with architect after architect for about, you know, six weeks and we ended up getting 27 investors all putting in $100,000 each. A lot of people with not a lot of money borrowed against their homes to invest money in. And when we first said we want to return 10 per cent per annum, ur first investor said that wasn't enough. It wasn't it didn't match the risk versus return matrix for them. And so they wanted fifteen percent return. So we ended up taking all the equity. In Nightingale One it was about a 10 million dollar project and we raised $2.7 billion in equity with a capped return of 15 percent per annum. Going forward from that ...   Eve Picker: [00:29:49] Did you return the 15 percent?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:29:52] Yeah, absolutely. We returned. And so the way that we that our model worked was that we have a construction contingency in the project, and so after we returned all the money to the shareholder, exactly as we said in our prospectus at the end of the project, the money left over from that contingency, instead of taking that as developer, which a developer would normally keep that as [crane?]. We then gave that back to the residents. So the residents that had balloted into the building, because by that time there was more demand than there was supply after the success of the comments. So we had to run a public ballot where the mayor drew the names for the apartments out of a hard hat. And those residents, those lucky residents at the end of the project, their apartments were about $90,000 under market. And when we finished the project, we gave the building a check for $109,000 dollars back.   Eve Picker: [00:30:43] Wow. And just to be clear, because in the US apartments are usually, well, this is this is all for sale. At this point. Right. Yes. Which is really what the market is in Melbourne.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:30:53] Yeah, absolutely. It's all you know, it's all for sale. Everything's for sale.   Eve Picker: [00:31:00] Which is in itself an interesting discussion. That's really amazing. So now now that was the first project. What's happening next?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:31:08] Well, so after the completion of Nightingale One, and then we did Nightingale Two which is just completed and Nightingale Brunswick East, which is just completed.   Eve Picker: [00:31:18] How many units did you build?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:31:19] So Nightingale One. So the Commons is 24 apartments, Nightingale One is 20 apartments, Nightingale Two is 20 apartments, Nightingale Brunswick East is a hybrid with a property developer. So that's 38 Nightingale apartments and about 25 straight to market apartments.   Eve Picker: [00:31:37] So that's a real mixed income project.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:31:39] Yeah. Yeah. And that's interesting. It's interesting. The developer was so good. They funded the whole project. They agreed to run everything transparently with us. So it's you know, so Nightingale's principles are that it has to be minimum seven and a half stars, has to be carbon neutral and operations can't have natural gas pumped into it, has to have, you know, all those Nightingale principles. And we've got to lock up. We also have a restrictive caveat which says that if we're selling and owning an apartment to you and we're capping the maximum sale price that we're selling to you based on a maximum return to investors, then you can't sell it tomorrow and make a massive profit.   Eve Picker: [00:32:19] And so you want to keep it affordable.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:32:21] Yeah, absolutely. And so this developer, Lucent, agreed to do all of those things. They handled all the delivery side. And the benefit the upside for them was that they were trying to sell apartments in a street where someone else was about to sell 700 apartments. Someone else was selling 60 apartments. There was about a thousand apartments on the market. They broke their building in half, did half Nightingale half straight to market. We said that we would do that only if the entire project, including their straight to market apartments, were carbon neutral in operations and met the minimum seven and a half star requirement. They agreed to do that. The Nightingale apartments went to ballot. They balloted in one day. So they sold all of 38 apartments in one day.   Eve Picker: [00:33:04] That's astounding.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:33:05] Which then got them the sales target that they needed to get financial closure from the bank to cover the debt, which meant that they could then demolish the building, start their basement construction, which gave them a massive program jump on all the other buildings. They then opened their straight to market sales. And some of the people that it missed out on the Nightingale ballot went and bought there because they could afford to. But also, they were interested in the sustainability idea of carbon neutrality and the idea of community. And then it gave them a kind of a massive differentiator in the market. And so when no one else was selling anything in that street, they sold their 25 apartments in three weeks, which was unheard of.   Eve Picker: [00:33:50] I don't know what balloting is. Can you explain that to me?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:33:53] Sure. So ordinarily, the way that a straight to market developer would sell their properties by employing a real estate agent. The real estate agent generally charges a fee of about 2.25% percent. So there's two different ways you can sell in Australia. But if you if you employ a real estate agent here, they'll charge you 2 per cent of the gross revenue of the project, so if  the project is a 10 million dollar project, they'll charge you $200,000 for the 20 million dollar project, they'll charge you $400,000.   Eve Picker: [00:34:22] Because they're going to sell all units for that.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:34:25] That's right. They are going to sell all the units for that. If you historically had trouble selling, you would go to financial advisors in inverted commas, who are meant to be independent and they could sell your apartments to people looking for investment advice and they might charge six or seven percent. Okay. I think they're trying to outlaw that at the moment. Because they're their commission obviously makes it difficult, the rate of their commission is so high, it makes difficult for them to make independent advice about what to buy into or what not to. But Nightingale's says no real estate agents, no sales, no marketing. Instead, it has a series of information nights, it talks to all the purchasers and it provides information, fearless information, warts and all, about the great things about the project and the not so great things about it.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:35:17] So for The Commons, for Nightingale One, we talk about all the great things, but we also say that it's right next to the train line. So the great thing about that is that it's really close. But it also means that train runs 24 hours on a Friday and Saturday night. And if you got your window open, you know you can. You're going to hear it. You know, that's a very, very it's a place of urban flux, and that where you see all the single story warehouses now, you'll be a construction site for the next five years. So we talk about all those things openly.   Eve Picker: [00:35:43] So how do you find those people, though? How did they find you?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:35:46] I don't know. So so, look, we don't have you know, we don't have a marketing team. We had some political trouble on Nightingale One where we got a planning permit. The developer next door took us to the appeals court here based on the fact that they didn't want us to sell apartments that were 20 percent bigger, 20 percent cheaper and 120 percent better than theirs, because I think that they thought that it might provide a market problem for them. They took us to the appeals court and they were well funded by the developer. And we weren't particularly well-funded. And they had a good legal team. And then they had our permits stripped from us. So they got our permit taken off us.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:36:33] Well, it's a very, very strange planning system here where  individuals can veto a local government decision. It's very interesting. So we then had to lodge a new  planning application from scratch for Nightingale One.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:36:53] But the interesting thing was that when Nightingale One lost the local planning permit at that at the appeals tribunal, the local media, particularly the liberal media, got very, very bent out of shape about a project that was trying to deliver carbon neutral housing affordably, particularly trying to house millennials and first time buyers that had just been totally priced out of the market. And they got really bent out of shape that that the one thing that that project was defeated on at the appeals court was on car parking. So basically the whole fight was that we didn't provide any car parking. How our whole contention was that it sat on top of a train station next to a place where people were unlikely to have cars. Well, over 30 percent of them didn't have a license. Thirty percent of them didn't have cars. And the last 40 percent had filled out statics saying that they would either get rid of their cars when they moved into the building or that they would garage them in surrounding buildings that have masses of basement carbon that is under utilized. Well, the biggest thing that happened for us was that it totally changed the landscape for us in terms of everyone suddenly had heard of Nightingale, heard about this.   Eve Picker: [00:38:03] That bad thing was great marketing.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:38:05] Yeah. The bad thing that nearly broke me emotionally, like Breathe architecture was nearly broken the day after that. We couldn't believe what had happened in the 21st century in this city, given its incredible problems with climate change and kind of housing justice. And anyway, what we found was that beyond that, after that, our waiting list, like the week after that, our waiting list had jumped from 125 people to over 400 people.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:38:34] So people had read it in the mainstream. Wow. So you're wonderful. You're absolutely right. I think that was the start at which people actually started to hear about us.   Eve Picker: [00:38:42] So because we're running out of time. But I really want to know what's next.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:38:47] Mm hmm. Good question. So off the back of all of the Nightingales we've done, what we found was that Nightingale One opposite the Commons, they're both really great strong communities. But what we've found is that there's that they've actually started to work together as an organism. So the residents of The Commons and the residents of Nightingale One have worked together to lobby the council, to close the street at the front. So in two years time, the street will be closed and they're going to pull up the asphalt and replace it with grass and turf.   Eve Picker: [00:39:18] Well, it's wonderful. And so you've started to see really build a community here.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:39:22] Yes. And they and importantly, what else we've seen is with those two buildings in close proximity to each other, they've started to engage with other residents around. So it's not just individual communities, but everyone within that street now and across the railway lines and around the corner are all now kind of engaging in street parties, garage sale days, you know, Christmas parties or just talking to each other as they go past. There's no more anonymity. And so the big thing for us was how do we kind of learn from that? And so we bought seven sites to Street south of the Commons. And that's what's called Nightingale Village. So that's there was gonna be seven buildings by seven architects, all carbon neutral communities, no individually owned cars, a car share hub for 15 share cars, a consolidated bike park with 450 bikes. But importantly, no cars allowed on the streets. So on the streets above, again, pulling up the asphalt, replacing it with grass, trees, street furniture and making it a place for pedestrians and cyclists. That's fabulous. Yeah. And so then, you know, at that scale, it jumped from a 10 million dollar project to one hundred million dollar project. We had a superannuation company, HESTA work with an organization called Social Ventures Australia, an impact investor, and they put in 20 million dollars worth of equity into that project. And then we've had a big bank here, National Australia Bank essentially build a two billion dollar housing innovation fund to step into the gap that our federal government and state governments have left to. Yeah. And so the debt will be funded out of that National Australia Bank housing fund. So it's been incredible getting institutional finance coming in to make that happen. And then within that, obviously, we understand and that we're part of the gentrification problem. And so we've been looking at this idea of inclusionary zoning and why can it work in London and why doesn't it work here or why isn't it called for here? And basically, the property council here, lobbies our planning minister, not to put inclusionary zoning. They say that we won't be able to afford it, that it will make..   Eve Picker: [00:41:32] But who does the Property Council represent.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:41:36] Property developers. And so. And so we've decided at Nightingale Housing to now make sure that every project we do has 20 percent affordable housing in it, whether there's inclusionary zoning or not. And so what we're intending at Nightingale Village, we're now putting in 20 percent affordable housing. And so within that, we want to prove to the planning minister and to the government that you can put in affordable housing, that you can salt and pepper it through your developments, that it can be done well and it can be done elegantly and it can be done equitably. And if we can do it, there's no reason why a well-managed, publicly listed housing company or development company can't do it. So, yeah, look, the big push for us is now to actually make sure that we don't just we just try and get better with every project. We try and think through what are the other issues that need to be done and then we'll deal with it.   Eve Picker: [00:42:35] OK. So I have a couple of really quick questions for you. What trends in real estate development architecture do you see emerging that you think are important for the future?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:42:47] Yeah. Yeah. So, look, I mean, we're not plumbing natural gas and all of our buildings are carbon neutral in operation. So it has to be powered by 100 per cent certified green power, 100 percent renewables. So that's the measure that we use in Australia before we started Nightingale, every property developer told me that was impossible because people liked gas to cook on their woks, you know, to have a wok burner in their apartments and that they would never go without gas. Since Nightingale One has been complete, there are now five zero gas buildings within a one kilometre radius of Nightingale One. Quite interesting. So we've shifted the bar on this idea of can I operate without gas? Are my purchasers interested in carbon neutrality and around here? Absolutely.   Eve Picker: [00:43:37] And of course, if you don't have gas you don't need to run gas lines and that is another savings.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:43:41] Correct. In the building. Correct. No gas made a room. No gas particularly. Right. Right. Yeah.   Eve Picker: [00:43:46] Wrap up question here. So where do you think the future real estate impact investing lies? Because you've been dealing with those impact investors from day one?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:43:56] Yeah. It's a really good question. I think that and I'm very, very interested in your model, because I think that peer to peer lending is going to be really interesting about people being able to invest in projects with meaning. We see that the people of Melbourne who funded the early equity projects in Nightingale, they did it not so much for the return, but because they cared about what was happening to our city, what was happening.   Eve Picker: [00:44:25] That's why I built small change, because I think the people in the cities they're in and they just want to be part of making it better.   Jeremy McLeod: [00:44:33] Yeah, I agree. Totally. And so it's incredible to see Melbournians investing in projects and people with not a lot of money, but literally, you know, borrowing against their own home to help make this happen, because they're not just interested in making the city more livable place, but they're also interested in and they care about the future generations and what's happening to Millennials being locked out of the housing market and wondering what's going to happen for them in housing security in the future, so I don't think that's going to put a lot of pressure on institutional funds. We've got a lot of superannuation money in Australia.   Eve Picker: [00:45:11] So do you think the interest requirement of 15 per cent is going to grow?   Jeremy McLeod: [00:45:15] Well, the interesting thing is, since the village. That's the last time we paid those rates. Oh, very good. So since then, we've got two new projects on line and the offers are becoming back in. And now, you know, 13 per cent and 11 per cent because, you know, by the time we finished the village that's 14 projects. And with a wait list of eight and a half thousand people, the single biggest risk in a project is sales and settlement. Right.   Eve Picker: [00:45:39] There's not much risk. Right. Right. So I've really enjoyed the conversation. Thank you very, very much. Yeah, there's lots more and want to know, but it's pretty fabulous what you're doing. Thank you.   Eve Picker: [00:45:55] That was Jeremy MacLeod of Breathe Architecture and the Nightingale Project. If you want to build something that is affordable and sustainable simultaneously, says Jeremy, every project manager in Melbourne will tell you you can't do it. So Breathe instead defines sustainability through reductionism. They discovered that what people actually want is really good and meaningful housing with space, light, great outlook and plants, not marble countertops, three bathrooms and shag carpet. They have achieved affordability and sustainability through reductionism. If you don't need it, take it out.   Eve Picker: [00:46:40] You can find out more about impact real estate investing and access the show notes for today's episode at my web site Eve Picker dot com. While you're there, sign up for my newsletter to find out more about how to make money in real estate while building better cities.   Eve Picker: [00:46:57] Thank you so much for spending your time with me today. And thank you, Jeremy, for sharing your thoughts with me. We'll talk again soon. For now, this is Eve Picker, signing off to make some change.   Eve Picker: [00:47:17] Be sure to go to Eve Picker dot com to sign up for my free educational newsletter about impact real estate investing. You'll be among the first to hear about new projects you can invest in. That's Eve Picker dot com. Thanks so much.

Wherein it’s another (very) sloppy start in the new digs, someone rings Matt, Cat rings Dom, and we talk about same-sex marriage. We discuss Freedom of Choice, how much do roadsigns cost?, cats vs dogs (which are better drivers), and other animals are spoken of at some length. Also; boat sewage, aeroplanes with no wheels, 99% Invisible, capitalism, Australia Talks survey, impeachment again, Syriana. And: a Johnny Depp film that DI won’t recommend, Joker - not a discussion, how many films we’ve seen - a recap, Shania Twin. Plus: MB auditioning for rebels, American/Australian versions, John Cleese, the internet is making us into worse-behaving people, just be nice, DI’s puppet wall.   Pig using tools: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/pigs-recorded-using-tools-for-the-first-time.aspx Fatberg: http://www.fatberg.com/ Guerrilla Signage: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/ Australia Talks: https://australiatalks.abc.net.au/   www.trcduo.comwww.domitaliano.comwww.mattbradshaw.comemail: podcast@trcduo.comFB: facebook.com/trcduoFB: facebook.com/MattyBBradshawFB: facebook.com/dom.italiano.7Instagram: instagram.com/trcduoTwitter: twitter.com/trcduo

Join us as we talk with American-Australian teacher Kim Anne Sohnle and what it takes to hit that "reset button" on your classroom management.  Show notes available at bit.ly/makeittilfridayridge  

This week, Scott Morrison is going to Washington--or is it Mar-a-Lago? In anticipation of the Australian PM’s state dinner with Donald Trump, Emma and Chloe look back on the history of American-Australian relations. From the ANZUS treaty to Iraq (and detouring through conspiracy theories, Gough Whitlam, and the CIA), Australia has a track record of following the US everywhere it goes, including into war. With Trump ‘locked and loaded’, Emma and Chloe ask whether history repeating, and will Australia find itself at war in Iran?Reading ListOn Trump and Morrison/the US in the World:Dexter Filkins, “The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention,” The New Yorker, 16 September 2019.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/16/the-moral-logic-of-humanitarian-interventionElaine Pearson, “Trump’s Attack on Asylum-Seekers Was Made in Australia,” Foreign Policy, 24 July 2019https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/07/24/trumps-attack-on-asylum-seekers-was-made-in-australia-png-manus-island-nauru-new-zealand-refugees-offshore-detention/Tanya Levin, “What Scott Morrison’s faith means,” The Saturday Paper, Edition No. 261, July 13-19, 2019https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2019/07/13/what-scott-morrisons-faith-means/15629400008440Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/“America’s ‘credibility’ is not the problem here,” Crikey, 31 October 2017.https://www.crikey.com.au/2017/10/31/yale-diaries-americas-credibility-is-not-the-problem-here/“The History of the USA and Australia’s Love In – and Turnbull’s Grovelling,” Daily Review, 6 May 2017.https://dailyreview.com.au/history-great-relationship-australia-us-love/59439/“Trump, Syria and the Irrelevance of History,” Daily Review, 15 April 2017.https://dailyreview.com.au/trump-syria-irrelevance-history/58522/“Teaching History in TrumpWorld,” Daily Review, 4 March 2017https://dailyreview.com.au/teaching-history-trumpworld/56534/On handshakes:Adam Boult and Chris Graham, “Justin Trudeau's handshake with Donald Trump the 'biggest display of dominance in the history of Canada',” The Telegraph, 14 February 2017.https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/13/justin-trudeau-becomes-latest-world-leader-brave-trumps-awkward/On Whitlam:Christopher Knaus, “Whitlam dismissal 'palace letters' case wins right to be heard by high court,” The Guardian, 16 August 2019https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/16/battle-over-whitlam-dismissal-palace-letters-heads-to-high-courtGuy Rundle, “All facts point to US involvement in the Dismissal,” Crikey, 13 November 2015 [$].https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/13/rundle-all-facts-point-to-us-involvement-in-the-dismissal/James Curran, “How Whitlam rattled the ANZUS alliance,” The Monthly, August 2012.https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/august/1348618116/james-curran/dear-mr-presidentOn the US and anti-Semitism in the UK:Owen Jones, “Fighting smears and the antisemitic minority in the Labour party,” 8 March 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qxk0hW0_EQ&feature=youtu.be

In this episode I am so honoured to speak with the one and only Toni Childs. If you don’t already know who she is, Toni is an American-Australian singer and songwriter, Emmy Winner and three-time Grammy nominated recording artist, known for her powerful voice, inspiring independent spirit and crafted storytelling, in fact speaking with her for this interview, I visualised her to be a warrior goddess. Over Toni’s incredible career she has opened for Bob Dylan and performed duets with greats such as Al Green and Peter Gabriel. She has toured the world over gaining a much-loved fan base. Aside from music, Toni is absolutely passionate about bees and bee keepers, who she calls the real ‘Rock Stars’ on the planet. Toni is an advocate to promote the survival of endangered pollinators, who not only give us honey, but are also is responsible for the essential pollination of crops including fruit, vegetables, nuts and timber tree species. Toni has embarked on a bee keeping movement to actively promote and celebrate the longevity of the pollinators and our planet for many years to come. This is her story, and this is her passion. IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS + Recovering from Graves Disease + Harmful Toxins and Chemicals + Environmental Stability + Bee Keepers + Synthetic Chemical suppressing the immune system + The launch of Toni Childs touring company + Its all a Beautiful Mind + Retrospective Tour 2019 + Exploring Australia + Safeguarding the planet for future generations SHOW NOTES https://www.instagram.com/passionharvestpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/Passionharvest hello@passionharvest.com https://tonichilds.com/ https://twitter.com/tonichilds?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/thetonichilds/ https://www.instagram.com/thetonichilds/ https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperTonichilds https://qbabees.org.au/

This episode went all over the place. We talk about American & Australian lingo, learn French & ride the train home.

This week Joe sits down with Australian strength coach & gym owner - Christian Woodford. Christian flew across the globe just to be a guest on the Industrial Strength Show...and he's FIRED UP to talk to Joe! Topics of conversation include: How Christian is going to get Joe to Australia; The difference between the American & Australian private sector gyms; The importance of injury prevention when training athletes; "Heavy Ass Sled Drags" in athletic development; Understanding the ART versus the SCIENCE of coaching; Christian's first interaction with Joe D; How the CPPS course helps change coaches lives; The trials & tribulations of being a business owner; How Christian's social media campaign got him on the Industrial Strength Show...and much, Much MORE!   For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

This week Joe sits down with Australian strength coach & gym owner - Christian Woodford. Christian flew across the globe just to be a guest on the Industrial Strength Show...and he's FIRED UP to talk to Joe! Topics of conversation include: How Christian is going to get Joe to Australia; The difference between the American & Australian private sector gyms; The importance of injury prevention when training athletes; "Heavy Ass Sled Drags" in athletic development; Understanding the ART versus the SCIENCE of coaching; Christian's first interaction with Joe D; How the CPPS course helps change coaches lives; The trials & tribulations of being a business owner; How Christian's social media campaign got him on the Industrial Strength Show...and much, Much MORE!   For Show Notes & Timestamps goto www.IndustrialStrengthShow.com

I've known Walter Jennings for three years, at the time, he was leading the International KOL (Key Opinion Leaders) program for Huawei. Today, I'm honored to host Walter, who is now a Senior Consultant at the Tantalus Consulting Group, serving as the firm’s leading expert on International Key Opinion Leaders and Influencer Relations for corporate reputation A Bit About the Guest Walter Jennings is one of the most seasoned communications professionals out there. Based in Hong Kong, he is an American-Australian with 25+ years’ experience advising companies in China, Australia, and the United States. Most recently, Walter developed and led the program globally as Vice President, Global Corporate Communications at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen, China. As a member of Huawei's KOL program, Walter and I forged a great friendship that spanned beyond just meetings at events and social media. Honestly, if there was a paradigm for how to manage influencer relations then Walter would be it. During his tenure, Walter was able to rally a group of international influencers and shepherd the Chinese tech company to great acclaim. In fact, Shel Israel wrote that Walter Jennings was so important.... "because he is the glue that binds together the loosely structured network called KOL" MORE ABOUT THIS SHOW On the episode, Walter and I cover: Influencer Relations Win/Win Opportunities What Kind of People Work Well on Social Media Transactions vs Relationships Authenticity in the 21st Century Listen closely because there's a lot of great insights and ideas.

The medium is the message - music, moves and murals. In our second episode of Ponder, we hear how, despite being oceans apart, American/Australian duo Vallis Alps have been rapidly gaining an international fanbase. We learn from journalist Maziar Bahari about how an important campaign, about the right to education, is given a voice through the medium of street art and finally, we hear how Massachusetts based Mtali Shaka Banda is changing the way jazz is heard, through a socially conscious narrative, influenced by his own hardships.    

You Have to See it For Yourself This week Johnny and Brian are looking back at the 1999 Sci-fi classic The Matrix (the two that follow not so much)! The guys are talking about how groundbreaking this film really was and break it (and the rest of the franchise) down. News Bites Grey Damon has been cast on The Flash as Mirror Master… Hastings from Friday Night Lights Star Trek: Discovery is set 10 years before The Original Series… Yawn Suicide Squad setting Box Office Records… Villains vs. Villains > Heroes vs. Heroes Red Pill or Blue Pill… You Decide The Matrix is a 1999 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called “the Matrix”, created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer “Neo” learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the “dream world”. What The Matrix...

Joe takes a look at Walt Disney Pictures, DisneyToon Studios & Buena Vista Pictures' 2003 American-Australian animated musical comedy adventure film, "The Jungle Book 2".

What is the Matrix? Well... The Matrix is a 1999 American-Australian science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.Neo (Keanu Reeves) believes that Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), an elusive figure considered to be the most dangerous man alive, can answer his question... What is the Matrix (the same question this description started with...deja vu)--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southarcadia/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/southarcadia/support

Ryan catches up with American/Australian poet Emily Ballou just before her event at the SPL. They discuss what it's like to be a poet abroad, the influences on her work and her recent collection, "The Darwin Poems". We're also treated to "Bluegrass", a poem by Ryan, with musical accompaniment by Jed Milroy. Presented by Ryan van Winkle. Produced by Colin Fraser. Incidental music by Ewen Maclean. For feedback, mail splpodcast@gmail.com